Iain Pears Quotes
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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The Palestinian election is something that was really a turning point. It's a mandate for peace.
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I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy.
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I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.
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Nike believes in a world where everyone celebrates the power of diversity.
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Count 10 over him - he'll get up
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As your president, I will do everything in my power to protect our LGBTQ citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology.
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When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.
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Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.
