Allan Nairn Quotes
People have a tremendous range of options of how they can behave. There's so much in people.
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In our world of rampant 'individualisation', relationships are mixed blessings. They vacillate between a sweet dream and a nightmare, and there is no telling when one turns into the other.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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Of course we are coming to invest in Germany - that is certain. Most airplanes in the fleet of Qatar Airways are from Airbus.
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I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything is kind of spare on the prairie. And so I'm just used to writing in that way. 'Sarah, Plain and Tall' was that way. And most of my fiction is. I like writing small pieces. Somehow it just suits me.
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You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
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Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
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Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
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I am really overwhelmed. Everywhere both in Internet and in other media, I have been asked for a message. I was thinking what message I can give to the people of the country at this juncture.
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I think the lie we've told people in the marketplace is that a degree gets you a job. A degree doesn't get you a job. What gets you a job is the ability to carry yourself into that room and shake a hand and look someone in the eye and have people skills. These are the things that cause people to become successful.
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In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.
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I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.
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I was so nervous that this was 'True Detective' and that I needed to do a good job that I would just dig into every scene.
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I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.
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We cannot neglect the unemployed, underemployed and dislocated workers of America who need ample and widespread funding for federal job training services.
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The sad truth is that most of my husbands turned out to be convincing liars.
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The problem with most intimate relationships is that they are not romantic. They do not involve a deeper knowing, and thus there is diminished possibility of sacred, transformative sharing.
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Just because a guy rings your bell, doesn't mean you have to toot his horn.
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Finding an excuse not to buy a brand can be just as enjoyable as finding an excuse to buy one. That, too, is human nature.
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Charm is an intangible. Chutzpah, charm, charisma, that kind of thing, you can't buy it. You either have it or you don't.
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People have a tremendous range of options of how they can behave. There's so much in people.
