James Lasdun Quotes
I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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I know that 'boots on the ground' is a scary phrase and that the Western world has gotten used to sterile attacks.
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I was imprisoned in the aftermath of the 11 September 2001 attacks, when Egypt's state security was rounding people up in unprecedented numbers.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me.
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I'm not saying the N word anymore.
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I don't waste as much time at work because I'd rather spend it with my kids.
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I feel a lot of pressure when I'm writing because I know, you know, if they looked at a synopsis of the book, what they read could only confirm all the stereotypes that they have about us and about people like us.
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As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am.
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Because to write, one must truly suffer.
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I consider myself a writer. I don't favour any type of writing. I sometimes wish short stories came more easily to me.
