Nicolas Berggruen Quotes
Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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Kai-Fu's Innovation Works is the top very-early-stage fund in China. We are proud to be an investor, and hope that IW will help to produce in China companies on the scale of Facebook, Zynga, or Groupon.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.
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It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.
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Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
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Stardom is only a by-product of acting. I don't think being a movie star is a good enough reason for existing.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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When I wrote 'The Da Vinci Code,' I told myself that this story of Jesus makes more sense to me than the story I read in the Bible.
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I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.
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When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'
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Play a little light catch and only some short sprints for me. Then on the day-of, it's just getting loosened up and ready to go out there and pitch.
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Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.
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I was a very creative child. I played the saxophone and piano, and I was always writing poetry and stories, or drawing in my notebook. I just tried to express myself through as many creative outlets as possible. And in high school, I started to get really into photography and videography and would spend hours working on it.
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When writing sex scenes, there is often no pleasing anyone, except perhaps the writer herself.
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I would like to help my people in any way I can. It's difficult times in Pakistan and we all have to help.
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If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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You really can't write well if you're thinking about what the reviewers might say.
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In short, we have, among African countries, a duty of solidarity.
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Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.
