Nalini Singh Quotes
Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.
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I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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I guess you could say I have bad taste in men. But I no longer feel the need to be someone's wife.
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Do not quit! Hundreds of times I have watched people throw in the towel at the one-yard line while someone else comes along and makes a fortune by just going that extra yard.
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The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Someone who knew me when I was 14 said I was the oldest 14-year-old on the planet. Now I'm a 14-year-old who is 60.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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When a man says he must develop a holy life alone with God, he is of no more use to his fellow men: he puts himself on a pedestal, away from the common run of men.........If we are abandoned to Jesus, we have no ends of our own to serve.
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We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
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I am no prude, but when I watch comedy, I ask myself, 'Who wrote this? A teenage boy in the locker room?'
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I think 2001 was the year Al Jazeera started to play an international role, in a way. Because in 2001, we were the only TV station located inside Kabul, and every image out of the war in Afghanistan, the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, came through Al Jazeera screen.
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An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.
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Sara held up a hand. 'How exactly did you "decline" his offer?' 'By slitting his throat.
