Vasyl Lomachenko Quotes
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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I know how to treat my voice to make it sound as good as it possibly can - which is still not that good.
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
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People don't know how to listen, and it's not their fault. In school, we learn how to read, we learn how to write - but nobody teaches you how to listen.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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I'm waiting for them to come up with a 'Star Trek' thing so they can beam me from my house to the gigs and back.
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.
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Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy.
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Every fighter fights in the ring the way his opponent lets him fight.
