Wilkie Collins Quotes
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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It's more important to fly midpoint in deals and work together than to try to haggle for the last dollar.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
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I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
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I love working with women.
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The Dalai Lama can claim the sanction of the Buddha, who is said to have altered his teachings in order to reach a diverse audience.
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I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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Fifteen percent of Russia badly polluted.
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Through our scientific and technological genius we've made of this world a neighborhood. And now through our moral and ethical commitment we must make of it a brotherhood. We must all learn to live together as brothers-or we will all perish together as fools.
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I've never had any close male friends. The most important relationships in my life have always been with women.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
