Norman Reilly Raine Quotes
A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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One of my theories is to be captain on the field and off the field, you need to totally enjoy each other's company. I don't like discussing cricket off the field.
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Strange story about Degas. He hated women, didn't want to be with them. Yet he spent much of his life painting them. He had seen his father maltreat his mother, must have had a deep fear that he'd do the same thing.
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In terms of number of movies, I've been in an extraordinary amount. If you count only the minutes I'm onscreen, it's not so long.
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I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.
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The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
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There's a lot of thought that bitcoin will be a huge threat to existing tax systems or existing ways governments have of controlling currency flows across their border. I personally think governments will do what governments have always done: they will adapt.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!
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A fat stomach sticks out too far. It prevents you from looking down and seeing what is going on around you.
