Florence King Quotes
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.
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We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.
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Creativity has no boundaries.
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I don't want to be any more interesting than I am. I love the life that I get to live, which is one of real independence and privacy and autonomy.
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When we look at human trafficking, we always think that it's far away from us.
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If we only practice compassion on the mind level, we run a great risk of our compassion being just talk. As we know, talk is cheap. To develop true compassion we have to put our money where our mouth is.
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Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
