Uzodinma Iweala Quotes
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.
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I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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I didn't even start college until I was 21.
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I hate shaving. It's much easier to just do a little stubble, but my wife and daughter like it when I'm clean-shaven. If you see me with a clean face, then you know I'm in the kissing mode!
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
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After I completed the project for BCG, I was offered the position of Director of Marketing for Ozon.ru.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
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A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes.
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I think travel is probably the downside of playing professional golf, but you've got to do it.
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When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.
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Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.
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That profound night freedom was agreeable and exciting.
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I tend to find you have to be fairly vulnerable to get something... to get a perspective worth having. Which can be controversial. But I find telling someone what you're thinking about, what you want, and what you're afraid of can often help them give guidance.
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It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.
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I suppose I'm pulled towards fiction because I really like the freedom it gives me.
