V. S. Naipaul Quotes
I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
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It's so important to get your skin to look even, whether it's with a MAC Cosmetics glow, a Laura Mercier tinted moisturizer, or even just a solid foundation. Start off with a good prep and a good primer.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
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I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there.
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Long before the arrival of reality TV - before speed cameras, before recording angels on buses and lampposts - I felt I was living in a country that already knew how to watch itself. It was journalism that held the responsibility for seeing who we were and noticing what we did.
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I think I grew up with a profound sense of watching people who were good people, who were smart people, who were hardworking people - God, nobody on this Earth worked harder than my mom and dad - and they had very little.
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I really wasn't equipped to be a writer when I left Oxford. But then I set out to learn. I've always had the highest regard for the craft. I've always felt it was work.
