Sunny Mabrey Quotes
I went to Paris when I was about 18 and then went to Miami and New York. I did all of that alone. I did it to myself.
Quotes to Explore
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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Good cinema is what we can believe, and bad cinema is what we can't believe.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
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I know what poverty is.
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Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
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Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
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I can't cook to save my life.
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The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.
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Having children is exciting. Life puts the past into perspective.
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I like men who are intelligent and sensitive.
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When you combine ignorance and leverage, you get some pretty interesting results.
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I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.
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My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'
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I write every day. I'm always in the process of writing my last book, until the next one.
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Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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Self-expression is impossible in relation with other men; their self-expression interferes with it. The greatest heights of self-expression in poetry, music, painting – are achieved by men who are supremely alone.
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The product itself should be it's own best salesman. Not the product alone, but the product plus a mental impression, and atmosphere, which you place around it.
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I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.
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I went to Paris when I was about 18 and then went to Miami and New York. I did all of that alone. I did it to myself.
