Ari Marcopoulos Quotes
A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Creativity runs across many categories in life, from the arts-and-crafts project a mum or dad does with their kids, to the bestselling author's manuscript, to the designs of the hairdresser, to the creations of the computer programming genius.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.
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Let me tell you, my career went from zero to 900. Its hard keeping up with that pace, but I wouldn't trade it for anything else in the world.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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The initial desire to train at an elite level started when I was probably 12.
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With 24-hour news... the story moves on with the media.
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Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
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A lot of my work comes through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves. I have to realize that something is presenting itself. Otherwise it slips right by.
