Monica Ali Quotes
I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.
Monica Ali
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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.
Rachel Brosnahan
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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I don't want to be the type of person to have my relationships plastered in magazines.
Victoria Justice
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
Randy Bachman
The Guess Who
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On many accounts, Cornwall may be regarded as one of the most interesting counties of England, whether we regard it for its coast scenery, its products, or its antiquities.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
Camille Paglia
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
Vin Diesel
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The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
Halle Berry
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
Sam Levenson
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I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.
Action Bronson
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Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
Camille Paglia
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I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18.
Chelsea Clinton
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The jobless recovery in Maine is much more of a reality than we thought it was.
Charles J. Colgan
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We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek it. We're told that heartbreak is all about love and we should just go after that high over and over again. We are told it is healthy to be addicted to this kind of behavior and the highs associated with love. But, that's not all what heartbreak is.
Sandra Cisneros
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When you're the best, and you know you're the best, and your contemporaries know you're the best, that's a terrific edge.
Raymond Floyd
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch. But all those little kidnaps in the dark. And then the luminous, big, shivering, discandied, unrepentant, barking web of them that hangs in your mind when you turn back to the page you were trying to translate.
Anne Carson
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I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.
Monica Ali
