Albert Payson Terhune Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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Historically, in India, the strange fact was that the equity owner was not taking as much hit as the lender. Therefore, if we restore the first principle of economics, that first the equity owner needs to take the hit and then the lender, we will get a good solution.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
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When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
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I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it's a quiet town.
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'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of who they think your character is, so you know you are asking for it. But that's the challenge.
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The proposed Bush regulations put politics above the health care needs of Americans.
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I just want to have fun.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.
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Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
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Win without boasting. Lose without excuse.
