Inga Cadranel Quotes
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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I've always been an independent person, but that independence was in the setting of security.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
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I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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A pitcher will never be a big winner until he hates hitters.
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Being the first woman speaker and breaking the marble ceiling is pretty important. Now it's time to move on.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
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We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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Getting a new passport took me a stupid amount of time. I had to go back five times with different photographs because they kept saying I was smiling, which is against the rules. I was not smiling.
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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
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For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
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I like guys who drive trucks.
