Gail Honeyman Quotes
The workplace can be a good place to find opportunities to socialise, but what if you don't meet any like-minded people there, or what if you work alone? Is it, somewhat counter-intuitively, easier to find yourself lonely in a city than in a small town or village?
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that's the only place that you go.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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How can you think and hit at the same time?
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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Anytime something starts to feel like a popularity contest or not about the music, I'd rather just not be involved. I'm not a big high-fiver. That really gets to people around me when we have a No. 1 or something big happen. I'm not a big, 'Let's go have a party about it!'
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'
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Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
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I don't generally follow sports. At an early age, I discovered that nature had apportioned me only a small reserve of enthusiasm. Best to ration.
Colson Whitehead -
I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.
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I think most Americans don't really care about politicians bickering in Washington.
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The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
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The workplace can be a good place to find opportunities to socialise, but what if you don't meet any like-minded people there, or what if you work alone? Is it, somewhat counter-intuitively, easier to find yourself lonely in a city than in a small town or village?
