Ali Bongo Ondimba Quotes
It's important to produce economic development. Fundamentalism develops even faster with misery.
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Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
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I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.
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Just to be remembered is good enough for me. Lots of people are forgotten.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
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I'd like to recover some of the strangeness and wonder of consideration of the future.
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It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.
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You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park
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To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.
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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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I don't expect to be a ‘leader’ with this thing. I'd rather be a builder. I'd like to build a way for people doing good work to connect, to learn from each other, protect each other, and then I want to get out of their way.
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In making friends, she was wary of people who foster dependency and feed on it. She had been involved with a few--the blind attract them, and they are the enemy.
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Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery if only to learn this lesson.
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I want to do something different, really different, and if it alienates people that's too bad.
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Remember me when I am dead and simplify me when I'm dead.
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It's important to produce economic development. Fundamentalism develops even faster with misery.
