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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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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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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Dominican Republic is, is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etcetera.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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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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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
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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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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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As you leave these gates and re-enter society, one thing is certain: Everyone out there is going to hate you. Never tell anyone in a roadside diner that you went to Harvard. In most situations the correct response to where did you go to school is, "School? Why, I never had much in the way of book learnin' and such." Then, get in your BMW and get the hell out of there.
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I was a pretty angry kid, and I got into military history largely as a way to vent my own anger. As I got older it narrowed down to a more specific focus on individual violence. I'm just trying to understand where it came from.
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The way I like to think about it is, even though I started music early - I started in classical music - it wasn't until I discovered jazz that I really fell in love with music and realized this was what I wanted to do for a living.
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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.
