Darin Strauss Quotes
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Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?
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I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
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I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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There are still some terrible cliches in the presentation of Indian fiction. The lotus flower. The hennaed hands. In mainland Europe, people still slap these images on my books and I go bananas.
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I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.
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I have a particular image, and my customers know my line isn't going to be so trendy it will be out of style next year.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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I don't think anybody ever really just retires where they don't do anything.
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The truth is I am not a very hands-on political wife; I don't get involved in day-to-day Downing Street life. They don't need me interfering, but in the evening, we will talk about each other's day. I try to stay out of the Westminster village. There are times when I will be surprised and curious about what's been announced.
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I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.
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My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can give myself time to tour or celebrate or write a film score.
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Justin Bieber and I are going to get married some day. I also like Tom Cruise. He's very classy.
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I push myself to the limit.
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Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
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Such a darling child, they would say, and pat her head. And Miriam would answer in her heart: you made my father a slave. You want us all dead. You are the river, you and all of Egypt. You are the river and as long as we stay beside you we are in danger of drowning.
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He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.
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He knew that fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.
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A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.
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Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.
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Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.
