Markus Zusak Quotes
I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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I don't think anyone should be banned. If you don't like a book, set it aside.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me.
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...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.
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I don't like clothes that constrict. The idea is that they should accompany and help you. There's nothing superficial about getting dressed. Clothes can give you self-confidence and help you be yourself.
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Anyone who relishes art should love the extraordinary diversity and psychic magic of our art galleries. There's likely more combined square footage for the showing of art on one New York block - West 24th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues - than in all of Amsterdam's or Hamburg's galleries.
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I'm not one of these 'the characters write themselves; the story just fell out of me' kind of writers. Wish it was like that.
