V. S. Naipaul Quotes
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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I miss my parents. But still, my granddaughter, my daughter, my grandma, you know, so it's very important for me. You lost your parents, but a new baby comes. It's like the cycle of fashion.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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If we meet an honest and intelligent politician, a dozen, a hundred, we say they aren't like politicians at all, and our category of politicians stays unchanged; we know what politicians are like.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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If people want to think I'm an Indian prince, I don't want to dispel that notion.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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NASA asked me to create meals for the space shuttle. Thai chicken was the favorite. I flew in a fake space shuttle, but I have no desire to go into space after seeing the toilet.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
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As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.
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I'm always shy when I meet people I admire so I wouldn't be able to say anything rather than, 'How do you do? Love you! Bye!'
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
