Marlon James Quotes
I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.
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I am a big Pink Floyd fan. That is where a lot of the concept lyrics come from.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it's because you're making yourself sick and tired - by engaging in too many energy leaking things.
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The United States influences government and life everywhere else.
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When I first heard about Twittering, I thought it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever heard of in my life. It's like the devil: the idea that your personal life is there for everybody.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.
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Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.
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Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.
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I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.
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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.
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The Carthage traffic cop has an alligator in his bathtub!
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Before 'The Vampire Diaries,' I was making beats, which is how I got will.i.am's attention, and I went on tour with him.
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In 1988, my mother led a nationwide election campaign, wrote a bestselling book, had her first child, and became the youngest and first female prime minister of the Muslim world. All in one year! For her detractors, this wasn't good enough. She was unacceptable because she was a woman.
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I'm not a writer on a mission, and I'm very suspicious of writers on missions, but I'm also not living a false life.
