Wilbur Smith Quotes
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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I think I was more or less, convinced of that by just the press, the US press. By people who were pressuring you, saying that you gotta beat the Russian's, if you don't win anything else, win the Russian meet and so forth.
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Some children are tackling tough times without the support that can help them because the adults in their life are scared to ask.
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You have young men of color in many communities who are more likely to end up in jail or in the criminal justice system than they are in a good job or in college. And, you know, part of my job, that I can do, I think, without any potential conflicts, is to get at those root causes.
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I always gravitate towards characters that are so opposite of me.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
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The first story I finished was when I was six years old.
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Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.
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My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
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Once a Supermodel, always a Supermodel.
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Over and over in the play my character says, "I'm thirty-two years old," as if that should explain everything that's wrong in her life. I don't know what it's like to be thirty-two, but I can imagine. I imagine she means she's stuck in an in-between time, she's at an age that isn't a milestone but more of a no-man's-land, an age where she's feeling like her hopes are fading.
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Were it not for my little jokes, I could not bear the burdens of this office.
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My job is to play chess, the game that I love. I achieve what I can in chess. That is what I focus on. Basically, I am always focused on playing the game, and this is important to me.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
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Forgetting is natural, remembering is the effort one makes.
