Michael Bond Quotes
I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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In Bollywood, you have to do one film at a time, and there are no mixed schedules. And doing four films at a time is out of the question. Telugu film industry works very differently. But the kind of films I'm getting here are better than what I've been offered in Bollywood.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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The advertising market in China is big and is still growing at a considerable pace. While online video is emerging as a mainstream advertising solution, it still represents a relatively small portion of advertising budget in China.
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Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.
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I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
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I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.
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I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor. I loved his tone; I loved his physicality; I loved everything about what he was doing as a comedic actor.
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If this tragedy prompts reflection and debate, as it should, let's make sure it's worthy of those we have lost.
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Well it is. It is a religion with me. It's a way of life. A religion is a way of life, isn't it?
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Our whole political machinery presupposes a people so fundamentally at one that they can safely afford to bicker.
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This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
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It's getting harder and harder to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. It still brings me up short to walk by somebody who appears to be talking to themselves.
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When the narrative itself starts knocking on the glassed-in box that was your prescription for how you were going to write this novel... you have to listen to it.
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Three more saves and he ties John the Baptist.
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I had my airplane, and I'd use it as a car whenever I could. If the drive was going to be longer than an hour, I was flying the plane instead. And in California, it's really easy to have a drive longer than an hour.
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Sometimes I fell like I’m drowning, actually, it’s more like most of the time. But every now and then when I’m sleeping I still have a dream that I’m flying… and I wake up crying.
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I have a flat in Paris and go there a lot, but the Eurostar's much more civilised than flying.
