Wilkie Collins Quotes
Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Today, the scope for variety has shrunk drastically. There are only a handful of topnotch composers like A. R. Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin-Lalit... that's it.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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At first my publisher had reservations about publishing it in the form you are familiar with.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.
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I do stupid stuff like that: I'll call my wife from the road, send her pictures of glaciers.
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You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators.
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The Anger Management Tour was another beautiful thing. I loved that tour.
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There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
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All this fame and money, which have so thrilled me when they came to others, leave me cold when they come to me. I am not an ascetic, but I don't know what to do with them, and my daily life has never been so trying, and there is no one to fill it emotionally.
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I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.
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I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'
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I am pleased with the response of investors towards Philips Lighting and the successful pricing of the I.P.O. This strategic milestone will allow Royal Philips to focus on the fast-growing health technology market.
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I try to forget what happiness was,and when that don't work, I study the stars.
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Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
