Dinesh D'Souza Quotes
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Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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I spent ten years riding motorcycles.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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I've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.
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Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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My favourite colours have always been '60s Miami-inspired gold and peach - feminine but not too girlie.
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The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.
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The more gunk I have on my face, the less free I feel.
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If there's a problem with that hit then I'll retire.
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I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child.
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So you must be silent. Then God will be born in you, utter his word in you and you shall hear it; but be very sure that if you speak the word will have to be silent. If you go out, he will most surely come in; as much as you go out for him He will come in to you; no more, no less….
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I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust.
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I am attracted to arguments that have a certain plausible originality to them.
