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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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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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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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
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If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God's story is really our story too.
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Cheap Drunk: An Autobiography (2002)
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When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to be. It's never as authentic.
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Thoughts, like water, will stay on course if we make a place for them to go. As you learn to control your thoughts, you can gain courage, conquer fear and have a happy life.
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Never lived in L.A. I've always done the New York thing.
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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.
