Allan Donald Quotes
There are times when you can get away with a chirp at the batsman and there are times when you should just be quiet. This was one of those times.
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
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I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know?
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Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt.
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If you're quiet, and you don't speak out, you're never going to get anything accomplished.
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
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I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.
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I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.
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Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
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A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
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I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
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When you make a record, you listen to it literally hundreds of times. When it's done and you can't do anything else, I never listen to my records.
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I was a very quiet kid. A really sweet kid, I might add.
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Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.
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I'm not really the quiet type, although some people think I am. But I'm the rebel type in the sense that I don't think I'm like everyone else. I try to be an individual.
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I'm gonna say this and I really mean it - I'm very thankful that I'm not a huge star. I've all the stardom and celebrity that I can handle. But I also have peace and quiet. I am left alone. And I am not recognized everywhere I go and it's perfect. I can come and fill the theatres and I get on stage ... people say: "Well, oh yeah, that must be him," you know?
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I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.
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What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has.
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In order to be a good writer, you've got to be a bad boss. Self-discipline and stamina are the two major arms in a writer's arsenal.
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These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play.
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There are times when you can get away with a chirp at the batsman and there are times when you should just be quiet. This was one of those times.
