James Clavell Quotes
It is a very pretty flag. … I wish I could have a piece of it. I know! If it's so important, I think we should all have a piece of it. Don't you? … Now we should decide - who should be allowed to cut the first piece off!
Quotes to Explore
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.
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One thing I can say about the French language is that no one in the world loves their language as much as they do. It doesn't matter if you're close - it still sounds terrible to their ears.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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The most important thing is the fact we have created this successful and sustainable Ford Motor Co. worldwide. I have no regrets.
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It's like watching a car accident, that reality TV.
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I have lived in many places over the years - sung in many languages too but hearing the Treorchy Male Choir made me realise how deep my feelings are, and always will be, for our beloved Land of Song. Glorious years of hard work and glorious music! Well done! I am only half Welsh - but these sincere good wishes and congratulations come from all of me!
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Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.
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There's certain people you want to see in comedies; there's certain people you just want to see in dramas. Not that there aren't individuals who do both, but it's not everyone.
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It is a very pretty flag. … I wish I could have a piece of it. I know! If it's so important, I think we should all have a piece of it. Don't you? … Now we should decide - who should be allowed to cut the first piece off!
