V. S. Naipaul Quotes
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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The real challenge is if you don't look super sexy, like a Brad Pitt, you're going to have to try harder. You're going to have to make up for it in other ways.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.
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Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
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I was never the mascot of the Georgia football team.
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The performances you have in your head are always much better than the performances on stage.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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D.C. is where I started. That's home for me. I always love coming back to the area. They treat me so well, and people show up. They're excited and claim me as their own. I love it.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.
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I don't believe in it, because you're not around to know that it's happened. I can't say anything about it because I'm not prepared for it.
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
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The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
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Housework has all along been the business of life; novels have been squeezed into the odd times.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
