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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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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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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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 had an interesting day's reading yesterday, with the sudden sensation of being in close contact with what I was reading. ... But as for reading how curious it is: all these books, their lore of the ages, waiting to be embraced but usually slipping out of one's nerveless hands on to the floor. When one reads properly it is as if a third person is present.
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You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.
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I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.
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Put yourself in the position of an up-and-coming artist living in early-sixteenth-century Italy. Now imagine trying to distinguish yourself from the other artists living in your town: Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo, or Titian. Is it any wonder that the Italian High Renaissance lasted only 30 years?
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You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.
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I heard you had to get 200 rejections before you got published.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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There can never be enough writers anywhere in the world.
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I'm a strong man. If someone needs my help, my money, my know-how, anything I possess, I'm always ready.
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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.
