Nasser Hussain Quotes
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Cricketers have a very short shelf life. On an average, you make money through cricket for five years, but you need to survive for sixty years.
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Louisiana commenced her existence as a state under a code of laws differing from all the other states which were founded on the common law, in that its code, a new one, was founded mainly on the Civil Law and the Code Napoleon of France.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
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Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
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Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.
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'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.
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I find that, for me, personally - and this is in everyday life - if I'm not growing, if I can't be stimulated in a conversation, then I am bored. And I'm not good when I'm bored.
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In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.
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I interact with journalists all the time, and I note how they behave.
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Character, like a photograph, develops in darkness.
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All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.
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I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
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When I was younger, me and my dad used to do different things. I don't think I would call it community service. It was more just us doing nice things. We used to donate to Goodwill or do can drives. Give people money if they needed it. Little things like that.
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This in turn suggests an answer to our question: what happened between the birth of De Sade and the birth of Krafft-Ebbing? The rise of the novel taught Europe to use its imagination. And when imagination was applied to sex, the result was the rise of pornography - and of 'sexual perversion.'
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Time loves a new lay; and the dirge he is playing Will change for you soon to a livelier strain.
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People are more optimistic about Detroit outside of Detroit.
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I don't think that 'Hannah' garnered a whole lot of respect from certain people.
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Graeme Smith is capable of reading other people's heads.
