Florence King Quotes
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.
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As an actor, I come to set, and I have already broken the character down by writing a poem about the character. I try to write in his voice, the way he would write it.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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I try not to go around looking like a hag.
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Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
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For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
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There's something about strip malls that just reeks of my childhood.
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I would not want to write something about something I do not think about.
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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
