Malcolm Forbes Quotes
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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I have a 'Mailer-Breslin and the 51st State' poster, and a neon-pink sign of Raoul's in SoHo, one of my favorite restaurants.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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I don't believe that you have to dress in a masculine way to seem powerful. I think that the way a woman dresses doesn't have to be so aggressive. Being feminine is a powerful feature in itself. Power is in a person's demeanor.
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It's kind of funny that I've been branded as the empathy lady when, really, what I'm doing is questioning and interrogating empathy.
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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth – and truth rewarded me.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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From year to year, environmental changes are incremental and often barely register in our lives, but from evolutionary or geological perspectives, what is happening is explosive change.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
