I can write with authority only about what I know well, which means that I end up using surface details of my own life in my fiction.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of... →
Alfred Adler
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
Stella Adler
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor Adorno
Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is... →
Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.
My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
Uzo Aduba
Some say that now that 50 years have passed, we would like another 50 more years to celebrate once again; that means it will be 100 years. After one... →
Bhumibol Adulyadej
We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.
Aesop
We obsess about celebrities. We create them, build myths around them, and then hunt them and destroy them. I don't know where it's taking us... →
Casey Affleck