James A. Michener Quotes
On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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My father was a lawyer.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I enjoy hiking and skiing, like most Norwegians. In winter, there will be snow for months on end. In the summer, there are the long evenings to enjoy.
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The effort of every time I put out a video, it was like, 'Okay, I've got to put it on my Facebook, I've got to put it on my website, what's the view count now? What's the view count now? What's the view count now?' You get obsessive with it.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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I loved the writing process. I loved it.
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I've been pretty lucky. Every single thing I've done has meant so much to me and has been like a stepping stone to something different.
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Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.
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People are surprised to find out that an awful lot of people think that they're idiots.
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People don't really recognize me often. I think I just look different in person or something. I'm also not very approachable, and maybe they're just like 'Ooohhh, she's scary!'
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On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.
