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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Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.
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Time is making fools of us again.
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Young people will tell you, if you're not prepared to write the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most horrible kinds of rhymes and scenarios, you are not going to get air play.
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Lamachus: Ah! the Generals! they are numerous, but not good for much! (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 1, Perseus)
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I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.
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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.
