Pierre Loti Quotes
I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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Life is like an analogy.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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Because I was the only child, I was completely indulged. My father thought I was the best looking boy. And even though I was at 100 kgs., he dismissed it as puppy fat. He thought that the sun came out of my head. If I got five out of ten marks, he thought I was half there and had only half way more to go.
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However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have footage of themselves dancing around in the clouds with Michael Jackson. I do have that forever.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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I don't like to be my own audience, I find that being my own audience, being in the audience, makes me self-conscious, basically. So I tune in sometimes, with the sound off, to check it out and I back up to it. In the future I will look at it when some time has passed.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I'm not upset about my career; I'm just upset about how my name has been portrayed. A lot of guys have played with Bron and had success. There's nothing I can do about it. I've tried to change my image a million times.
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The use of force to liberate people is very different from the use of force to suppress or control them, or even to defeat them.
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.
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I was at that time like a fledgling swallow living high up in a niche in the eaves, who from time to time peeps out over the top of its nest with its little bright eyes.
