Bernard Sumner Quotes
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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In the modern era, our nation experienced constant hardship and difficulties. The Chinese nation reached the most dangerous period. Since then, countless people with lofty ideals to realise the great revival of the Chinese nation rose to resist and fight, but failed one time after another.
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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Banking gives you a glimpse into what makes companies succeed and what makes companies fail.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.
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I am basically a private person.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I think human societies tend to be problematic.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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I'm learning every day.
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It took, for me, a long time to develop this idea of what to do on the radio. But from the beginning of my time in radio, I had pretty non-traditional tasks.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.
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Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.
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When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.
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I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'
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You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
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When I became the CEO of Burberry in July 2006, luxury was one of the fastest-growing sectors in the world.
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The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.
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A golfer should never make a mental mistake because the ball is just sitting there waiting for you to hit it.
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With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons.
