Pramoedya Ananta Toer Quotes
I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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If you're CEO of a company, you have to be a public person. You're speaking to the press, you're speaking to investors, you're speaking to employees, you're the public face of the company and so kind of naturally you become more extroverted, more outwards facing.
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Like most people, there are things I love about Amazon. It's cheap, it's fast, and it's at my doorstep. But Amazon will never replace the important role my local indie plays in my community.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.
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It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Joe Torre would tell you to make sure you can hit the ball on the outside part of the plate.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I like heels and make-up.
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My personal style can be everything from girly and flirty to edgy and chic.
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It ain't the heat, it's the humility.
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The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland.
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Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push my own books, I'd stop writing. I hate the conflation of marketing and writing.
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No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
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I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.
