C. S. Forester Quotes
I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Well, I decided to stop. And I did. I stopped smoking, and I stopped speed at the same time.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.
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I didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic.
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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Aside from 'Hatchet II' and 'Hatchet III,' I've never repeated myself. I try to keep doing things that are totally different.
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There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.
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God is creating at every moment of the world's existence in and through the perpetually endowed creativity of the very stuff of the world.
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I want my words to survive translation. I know when I write a book now I will have to go and spend three days being intensely interrogated by journalists in Denmark or wherever. That fact, I believe, informs the way I write - with those Danish journalists leaning over my shoulder.
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One cannot fail to observe a crushing irony: the gospel of relativistic tolerance is perhaps the most “evangelistic” movement in Western culture at the moment, demanding assent and brooking no rivals.
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I thank God daily for the good fortune of my birth, for I am certain I would have made a miserable peasant.
