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Writing in certain environmen...

Writing in certain environments carries with it an occupational risk.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

There is something really hor...

There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

Writers and intellectuals hav...

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus, it must be safeguarded.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

I have a kind of magnetic att...

I have a kind of magnetic attraction to situations of violence.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

The scales of reckoning with ...

The scales of reckoning with mortality are never evenly weighted, alas, and thus it is on the shoulders of the living that the burden of justice must continue to rest.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

There are different kinds of ...

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

There's a kind of dynamic qua...

There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

My understanding of the creat...

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a certain point, the human point in which everything is related to one another. That has been my creative experience. I never know who's influencing me at any time.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

One, a mass movement from wit...

One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

An idyllic period of my exist...

An idyllic period of my existence was when I had a den attached to my home... a writing den, and no one had access to that unless they had their own special visa, applied for weeks in advance.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

I don't have the sort of temp...

I don't have the sort of temperament that submits to Christianity or Islam.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

Those nations that say it's a...

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

My father was a schoolteacher...

My father was a schoolteacher, and so I had the advantage of both western educational instruction in the school, as well as what you might call the process of imbibing the traditional processes of education instruction around me.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

England is the breeding groun...

England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

No human is completely fearle...

No human is completely fearless.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

I'm not fond of biographies. ...

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

All religions accept that the...

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

I ceased using words like opt...

I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

Probably to me the greatest s...

Probably to me the greatest singer, female voice, is Billie Holiday. And one of the most moving for me, I don't know why - maybe it's nostalgia, maybe because my life is one of constant partying, whatever.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

The Sudanese government has b...

The Sudanese government has been playing games with the world, with the Africa Union, in particular, have been playing for time in order to conclude its mission of ethnic cleansing in the Sudan.

Wole Soyinka 95 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....