Nathalie Handal Quotes
I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
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I never co-write. I've tried it before, and I just can't do it.
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Owning a great golf course gives you great power.
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Ohioans are practical. We're a can-do people. Give us a problem, we'll give you a solution.
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I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.
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I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
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When you've been through that, a fight just doesn't seem that cataclysmic.
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The Cabal mocks the natural order. For its minions, death is just a pause between duties.
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In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.
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I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.
