Ivo Andric Quotes
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I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
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Along with opportunities, there also exist many other tricky and complex issues to be managed in India. These include tackling both policy-level challenges and infrastructure challenges.
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She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.
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Our modern religious horizon and our conception of the character of a religious leader and teacher are so different that it is not easy to understand men who saw the province of religion chiefly in the broad reaches of civic affairs and international relations.
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Ignorant power is a bane!
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I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop.
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We don’t forgive being as we are.
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I'm gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.
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All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.
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Did that remind anybody else of something?" "Yes," Eve said, tapping her lower lip with a bloodred fingernail. "How much I need to shave her head while she's sleeping.
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There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
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When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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What doesn't hurt - is not life; what doesn't pass - is not happiness.
