Ali Bongo Ondimba Quotes
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I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
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I like to be left alone when I'm not working.
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You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.
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There's nothing like simple spicy egg bhurji.
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When you're working well, you don't do research. Whatever you need comes to you.
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I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
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With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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Hollywood does tend to portray CIA officers as totally the honey trap. Looks matter as they do in any profession. But the most important thing for me when I was working was blending into my environment.
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I will be working with David Lynch when I'm 80.
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What could be better than working with people you love?
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Really, as long as I am working and have diversity, I am happy.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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A South Korean teenager, 18-year-old male, is about five inches taller than his North Korean counterpart. And there are many soldiers who are only about 4'6". The height requirement is supposed to be 4'9". That's the size of my 12-year-old son.
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It's funny: half my films were flops, half did well. It would be terrible if I'd had only success.
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Life is so great that we only get a tiny moment to enjoy everything we see. And that moment is right now. And that moment is counting down. And that moment is always, always fleeting. You will never be as young as you are right now.
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There is nothing that you can do without working.