Wilbur Smith Quotes
It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.
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I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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Suppose I put polka dots all over my body and then cover my background completely with polka dots. The polka dots on my body, merging with those in the background, create an optically strange scene.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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My first encounter with Marx's writings came very early in life, as a result of the strange times I grew up in, with Greece exiting the nightmare of the neofascist dictatorship of 1967-74.
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It's where you come from that's the strange, exotic, quirky, mad place.
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The 18,000 NASA employees are full of galactic talents and abilities and are ready to accomplish whatever they're directed to do.
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I don't really understand why so many fantasy writers choose to focus on worlds that just seem strangely denuded. But to them, I guess it doesn't seem strange. And I guess that's their privilege. It isn't mine.
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I think I'm at a place where I haven't really been encountered by anyone overtly strange. But people think they know me.
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Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
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I always think of Gilbert Norrell as being Salieri to Jonathan Strange being Mozart.
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Human civilization has been no more than a strange luminescence growing more intense by the hour, of which no one can say when it will begin to wane and when it will fade away.
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I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.
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I think that we should take the tragedy that happened in Newtown and have a full comprehensive dialogue about all issues, whether it has to do with mental health, whether it has to do with the social decline of our young people and some of the things that they are exposed to, whether it has to do with the firearms and guns.
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It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love, great in fidelity, great for God...
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All kids have tremendous talents — and we squander them pretty ruthlessly.
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There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.
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He had once thought it was strange to have a friend you'd never met. Now it was even stranger, losing a friend you'd never really had
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Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five barred gate. A dog by instinct turns aside Who sees the ditch too deep and wide, But man we find the only creature Who, led by folly, combats nature; Who, when she loudly cries-Forbear! With obstinacy fixes there; And where the genius least inclines, Absurdly bends his whole designs.
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The reality of her trauma to consciousness so that she could free herself from its intrusions into her everyday life.
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If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself.
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I've always loved the Marx brothers and Charlie Chaplin.
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.
