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Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
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To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide,…
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Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been…
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Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it…
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The road will never swallow you. The river of destiny will always overcome evil. May you understand your fate. Suffering will never…
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The Nigerian storyteller Ben Okri says that ‘In a fractured age, when cynicism is god, here is a possible heresy: we live…
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Destiny plans a different route and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.
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In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And…
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The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re…
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I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and…
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To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not…
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Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,…
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I still really love acting. I find it really challenging. And I really love film; it's a lot of fun.
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It's really difficult to navigate attention and stardom and celebrity status and still try to maintain yourself and hold onto your intelligence…
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I've always been really cautious about guys who have a Winnie Cooper fantasy, and I'm so glad about that. I mean, I…
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One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We…
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TV is so different from the movies. It takes a lot of stamina because you work such long hours. It is really…
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over…
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Sometimes in life we go through really challenging times. These challenging times can make it very difficult to be happy. Its not…
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Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really…
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