Frederic Raphael Quotes
Who now reads novels as a guide to life and love? Everyone wants to star in his or her own movie.
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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A lot of women seem to think the way to ingratiate themselves is to put down other women or backstab. That's the quickest way to be eliminated from my life - try that with me, and you're out.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.
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Under HB 2655, the state is responsible to ensure parents are aware of the purpose and value of assessments and receive notice from their local school districts about their rights and obligations. Educators must engage with parents about the value of assessment and the potential consequences if parents opt out and student participation diminishes.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
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My only goal as a comedian was to stomp the life out of the model-minority myth.
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I feel like my life has been very serendipitous and really kind of humorous. Everything that's happened to me has been like an, 'Omigod, are you kidding me?'
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it.
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Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings.
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The most important thing is to talk to people that have jobs that you might like and to see what they say the job involves.
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We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will take, what a character will do or say to surprise us, how the events in the world will impact our story.
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I think in the [Bill] Clinton era, if people hadn't been spending vast amounts of time attacking Clinton, they would have found that they had essentially the same problems as they do now.
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Who now reads novels as a guide to life and love? Everyone wants to star in his or her own movie.
