Markus Zusak Quotes
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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If it be not a sin, an open, flagrant violation of all the rules of justice and humanity, to hold these slaves in bondage, it is indeed folly to put ourselves to any trouble and expense in order to free them.
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I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.
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Religion is the opium of the masses.
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Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
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I certainly love doing comedy and feel most comfortable near it.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.
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I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
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It can be a necessary conceptual truth that pains are painful without this ruling out the physicalist thesis that immaterial minds are impossible or the thesis that conscious states supervene on physical states. The necessity involved in these claims is nomological necessity, not metaphysical necessity (assuming that these are different).
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
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What's the use of running when you are on the wrong road?
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I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.
