Allan Border Quotes
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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Let us have peace.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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It's difficult when you want it all.
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In India, nobody really talks about works of art; they always talk about the appreciation of art. You buy this for 3,000 rupees, it'll become 30,000 in two months.
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Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
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From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside the writer's head, to learn something we didn't know before.
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I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.
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Let's dare to release our immature fantasies of a magically faultless U.S. system and a magically protected election process. We have been lucky as a nation, but sometimes continued luck depends on action.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
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And I think that it's - the military has actually made improvements, so people are considering post-traumatic stress disorder as, at the least, a possible psychological problem. You know, when I was in Vietnam, it was just considered malingering. And we're making progress.
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People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a traveler.
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The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
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The speed of the boss is the speed of the team.
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People like me start organizing conferences and editing journals, even become tenured professors talking about Empire of the Senseless with a bunch of wide-eyed kids from the farmland. If only one of those kids goes back home and lets her hogs out of the pen to go plum wild rolling around in their own slop while the neighboring farmers scratch their chins, then, isn't that worth it? Insert the same scenario with stockbrokers, stock-car drivers, and stock characters in the post-baccalaureate working man's sideshow, and well, that's viral reproduction.
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With social media, you don't just publish a book and figure you've done your part; your fans want to talk to you, have a conversation. It means, though, that you can connect with your readers like never before, so you don't have to guess what they like - you can ask.
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When in doubt, do it.
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I am not talking to anyone in the British media. They are all pricks.
