John le Carre Quotes
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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The thing about motor neuron disease, once a muscle stops working, it doesn't start again.
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The first complaint we hear from everyone is: 'Why would I want to join this stupid useless thing and know what my brother's eating for lunch?' But that really misses the point because Twitter is fundamentally recipient-controlled - you choose to listen and you choose to leave. But you also choose what to put down and what to share.
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I'm not going to freeze under the pressure. I'm hoping I can stand up to it.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted down to Earth. I was very familiar with parachutes because I was a sky diver before.
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In actuality, there was casting for the show and it was pretty difficult.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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I have never been a believer that nice clothes should only be for people with money.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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The work that I do with all of my characters is have some sense of where they come from. I kind of create my own story for myself. What's going on with my parents? Are they alive? Or family - do I have children? Do you see those things or not?
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The plane took off at 8:10 in the morning - or that's when it was scheduled to take off. And that's when I believe it took off. I had been in my office at the Department of Justice. Someone told me that there had been the two strikes that occurred at the World Trade Center.
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
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There are ups and downs in so many relationships, but with Shah Rukh, there is deep love. There's no other way of communicating the respect and love I have for him. And I believe that ours will be a dynamic, and relationship and connect that will be forever.
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I love Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey.
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Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.
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That's the state to live and die in!...R-r-rich!
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If you don't have talent or preparation for whatever you want to do, you will not be successful in anything.
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Marriage does figure in my life, as I do want to have children. But I could also consider having children without getting married. The primary thing is having a good father, a partner who could be there with me through that journey.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
Good skin makes me feel pretty, and it makes me feel healthy, and it makes me feel happy.
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Religion and slavery are incompatible.
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I write and walk and swim and drink.
