Nalini Singh Quotes
And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.
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The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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Helping set the day's agenda and deciding what we used and editing it, that was a journalistic high point. I liked reporting as well. Just doing the news - the live performance - wasn't important. Working on the desk was.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
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Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
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I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
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I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.
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If I've learned anything in my career, it's that nothing worthwhile in life comes easy. That's just the way it is.
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I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
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The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled.
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It's not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
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I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually; you have to carry on. You always have to carry on. And you can, because you have to.
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There's an old saw about journalism that the more you know about a subject, the less sense reporting about it makes.
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The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.
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People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.
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Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.
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And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.
