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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The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.
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So often when Black men have to play roles on TV, we're either the noble savage or we're completely a savage, and there's no nuance.
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If you're in the public eye, you're constantly scrutinised. I was called too thin and then too fat when I was overweight. It's just a shame those are the reactions people have.
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I had this dream...that we had this new sixth member, for some reason, and he actually ended up being quite horrible! And he started a fight with me! And I wanted him to go away and none of the boys were helping me!
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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.
