Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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But when you’re deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it’s amazing.
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Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there’s a lot of work to be done.
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There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That’s why I call it the most social of the various art forms.
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Intolerance has become, I think, the reigning ideology of the world today, the intolerance versus intolerance and it’s taken on lethal proportions.
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You have the entire gamut of human experience captured in the mythology of the Yoruba. This is what makes the Yoruba mythology a natural source material for me in my creative endeavours.
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.
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I know there are writers who get up every morning and sit by their typewriter or word processor or pad of paper and wait to write. I don’t function that way. I go through a long period of gestation before I’m even ready to write.
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The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.
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I can look violence in the face and either reject or accept it.
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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse – exploration. Exploration of what lies beneath the surface, and re-confuguration of elements of what we call reality.
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