Mickey Drexler Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I think authors can get into trouble viewing the subject matter as their turf.
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Every time you get something, give something away.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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I'm having a great time. It's like I'm on some ridiculous big roller coaster not knowing what's happening next, but just having a great time on the ride.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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As a child, I was always making sound; it was a compulsion. I loved to scream and yell and sing; it freed me from all the thoughts in my head. I begged for opera lessons because opera singing is the most formidable, most emotional way to use your voice.
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The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.
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The more intelligence one has, the more people one finds original. Commonplace people see no difference between men.
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What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.
