Binyavanga Wainaina quote: "There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point."

I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work...
TAMMY BLANCHARD

What's the point in being an unpopular writer? It just doesn't make a lot of sense. For me i...
BRYCE COURTENAY

Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning abou...
TWIGGY

English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, i...
YAEL NAIM

I have been called a nun with a switchblade where my privacy is concerned. I think there's a poi...
JULIE ANDREWS

I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is m...
JOEL PARKINSON

I really don't act. I just live what George and I are doing. It has to make some sort of sense t...
GRACIE ALLEN

My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected ...
B.O.B

Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of tim...
BOB NEWHART

There's no point in lying saying I am doing really, really well because I'm not; I'm cul...
GARY NUMAN

You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that ...
CAMERON MONAGHAN

As long as I focus on what I feel and don't worry about where I'm going, it works out. Havin...
MARKETA IRGLOVA

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
COLIN GREENWOOD

With 'Divergent' and 'Insurgent,' there isn't great emphasis on uniformity; it&#...
JAI COURTNEY

But there's no point in looking back and saying I was unlucky.
JAMIE REDKNAPP

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word e...
FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not rea...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER

To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL

I prefer if friends come over to my office and we talk our heart out over a cup of coffee. I feel th...
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI

I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there's no processed food in my life. Ther...
GINNIFER GOODWIN

I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for...
AUDRA MCDONALD

Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying...
GEORGE HARRISON

There's no point in making a movie just to be making a movie.
WARREN BEATTY

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn f...
W. C. FIELDS

I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
TED TURNER

There's no point in dwelling on rejection.
ISABEL LUCAS

I think that plays are probably the most personal, because it's just me in charge, but sometimes...
DAVID HENRY HWANG

The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.
DANA BRUNETTI

I think you get to a point where you watch something just to enjoy it. I don't think it's re...
CHARLIE WATTS

I never play a villain that I don't have something I can either do or say so the audience sees t...
BRION JAMES

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.
BINYAVANGA WAINAINA

Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there'...
EDIE CAMPBELL

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE

I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, ...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR

There's two identity markers I'm sure of, and one is, I'm Jewish. And the other is, I...
ARIEL LEVY

I just let my hair go - if there's no hairdresser around I really can't be bothered!
KHLOE KARDASHIAN

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think ...
HUGO WEAVING

I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
ILYA YASHIN

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life&#...
ROBBIE WILLIAMS

There's no one who, at some point, hasn't had the feeling their life is on the rails and the...
DOVE CAMERON

There's no point thinking, 'Well, my life's certainly worked out, I've got all the a...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER

But I've really learned you don't have to fit in. No matter where you go, you're always ...
JENA MALONE

There's some places where, I don't know if they're fiddle fans, or Natalie fans or if th...
NATALIE MACMASTER

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in...
MARTIN MULL

I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic fe...
WHITNEY CUMMINGS

I have a responsibility to the people who work for me, the manufacturers I work with. There is no po...
DRIES VAN NOTEN

I hope I don't get driven to the point where, to be honest, I'm never satisfied. I hope ther...
BEN SCHWARTZ

I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is abo...
ELLEN DEGENERES

I don't regret being topless in certain things, but there were some things in 'EastEnders...
BEN HARDY

You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and...
OLIVIA COLMAN

The thing that I've learned is that there really is no joy, and nothing ever good is going to co...
STEPHEN AMELL

I don't think there's much point in bemoaning the state of the world unless there's some...
PETER SINGER

I see no reason to quit. I can't imagine walking away from being Big Bird. I mean, that's an...
CAROLL SPINNEY

People call me Joey all the time. I take it as a compliment. There's no point in correcting them...
MATT LEBLANC

I have no interest in jumping out of an airplane or any of the things people do for thrills, to push...
ANDERSON COOPER

You trivialize the idea of competition totally, then there's no point in having the competition ...
WAYNE ROGERS

I was just really glad how I stuck in there and kept fighting for every point. That's what makes the...
DANIELA HANTUCHOVA

Sometimes the things that are felt the most are expressed between two souls over the distance and ov...
C. JOYBELL C.

The story behind 'Check Point' is what drew me in. The script had a couple of twists that I ...
BILL GOLDBERG

I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There a...
LOIS LOWRY

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that i...
DANNY ELFMAN

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.
ROBERT GOTTLIEB

One day I looked in the mirror, and I wasn't happy. If you're not feeling good mentally, emo...
RICKI-LEE COULTER

I think we all think we sound really good in the shower, where there's that nice reverb, and the...
MERYL STREEP

I've been really lucky to have had a variety of roles, and I don't think I'm in danger o...
TOBIAS MENZIES

What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile ...
HALLE BERRY

There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out o...
CATE BLANCHETT

I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like ...
CORAZON AQUINO

Dating is fun. It's light: There's courting; there's the interesting, exciting text mess...
DENISE VASI

As far as the anxiety, I have no idea about it. I don't feel like I have any nervousness out the...
DONTRELLE WILLIS

One of the reasons for me that there's no 'Spaced 3' is that I don't think you can p...
EDGAR WRIGHT

When I first used to tour, guys would come up and say, 'Where's the fight club in my area?&#...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK

There's a point where art is not subjective, and my example for that is Picasso. If you don'...
DANNY HUSTON

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
EDITH EVANS

I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appeali...
JACK NICHOLSON

I think it's science and physics are just starting to learn from all these experiments. These ex...
ROBERT LANZA

While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I ca...
RAQUEL CEPEDA

No, I don't feel like I have a point to prove. I don't think there is anything to prove.
HEATHER BOWIE

I don't see myself as a hero because what I'm doing is self-interested: I don't want to ...
EDWARD SNOWDEN

There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.
CARL HIAASEN

Yeah, I did see where the people dissing me were coming from. But, it's like, anything that happ...
EMINEM

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it'...
CLIVE BARKER

I don't remember ever having writer's block. If I sit in there for four hours, I'll usua...
RANDY NEWMAN

There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.
J. CARTER BROWN

I'm really clear about what my life mission is now. There's no more depression or lethargy, ...
ALANIS MORISSETTE

There's no way to eloquently put this. I just can't go to the mall. It bothers me that I can...
KRISTEN STEWART

The whole point of being in the Army is wanting to get killed, wanting to test yourself to the limit...
RUPERT EVERETT

If I can't be me and be accepted and loved for that, then what's the point?
BRONAGH GALLAGHER

There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick ...
NATALIE GOLDBERG

Driving will never be away from me - I can't just give it up. It's all I've ever done, a...
JIMMIE JOHNSON

I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't li...
ZADIE SMITH

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense ...
MICKEY RIVERS

It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be somethin...
LAURA MARLING

At this point, there is no charge. That's all I can say.
CAROLYN FENNELL

I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don...
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew....
GRETCHEN WILSON

I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there&#...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON

If I weren't a writer, I think I might have thrown myself more enthusiastically into advertising...
PHILIP KERR

There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plan...
EDDIE MURPHY

I'm only going to stand before God and give an account for my life, not for somebody else's ...
JOYCE MEYER

There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.

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There's no point for me in being a writer and having all these blocked places where I feel I can't think freely and imagine freely. There just really is no point.

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