Thomas Nelson Page Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Art breathes into life a surplus that is both vital and extraordinary.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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There are no limits to our future if we don't put limits on our people.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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It's hard to sell a brand without having a face to it.
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To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.
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The first pitch I played on, for my first club, Braine-le-Comte, was only a metre from our house! I progressed very quickly.
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I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
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My husband does not like me to give interviews because I say too much. No talk, no trouble.
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One of the more challenging things in life is not being the guy who does the cheating, but not saying anything about it and going along with it.
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The main fight of Frelimo is against human exploitation.
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I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me.
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I guess with the way that I've conducted myself I'm in the logical spot and I'm fine with that. Even my limited interactions with success have left me confused and bummed out, so I don't think the two can co-exist.
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I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.
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Everyone across America is tightening their belts. The only place it hasn't happened is D.C.
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Noise ain't Truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.
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Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.
