Neil Kinnock Quotes
My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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In South Africa, I feel I am a stranger, at best an animal.
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Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.
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Do send out a newsletter when you have a new book out or are going on tour. Also list relevant event dates and notifications of contests you are running.
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The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.
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I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.
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A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't.
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The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.
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My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
