Alasdair MacLean Quotes
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I'd say I am more of a comfort person. I have Adidas sneakers that are my favorite thing on the planet. Adidas high tops with black jeans and a fur hat that I love wearing. I love vintage shopping.
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We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.
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I always had a fascination with twins.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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I had been writing professionally since 1988.
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Diego is Diego and for me he is the greatest player of all time. Even after a million years I am not even going to be close to Maradona. I have no intention of comparing myself with Maradona - I want to make my own history for something I have achieved.
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If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that.... Because it was not their fault.
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Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.
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I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.
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I don't love the off-court stuff. But I know it's necessary.
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Cooperation on the international level could help to solve the problem of sources of sharp capital flow volatility and its consequences.
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I do feel pressure from the outside world a little bit just because everybody wants new music, which is really nice. It just proves that everybody likes what I'm doing. But at the same time, I feel like it's important to just chill and experience things and really make the songs true to me.
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A lot of people call me a 'machine,' and I don't think a lot of men or women operate the way I do.
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I know all the songs that the cowboys know'bout the big corral where the doggies go,'Cause I learned them all on the radio.Yippie yi yo kayah
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What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?
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I'm the one who started redevelopment in South Los Angeles, not Jan Perry. I did it. I love Jan. She's a good person, and she did a wonderful job with what she did downtown, but in L.A., South L.A., I'm the one.
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I have to challenge myself, and I have to challenge the reader. We should be weaving and working on new stories and not the same story over and over.
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When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.
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I have the longing that all writers have for new ears to pour my words into.
