Aylmer Hunter-Weston Quotes
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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There are jobs, particularly database-oriented ones, for which computers are necessary, but for everyday office life, I question whether they have brought the productivity that their enormous cost, up to £10,000 per person, demands.
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I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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Whatever people thought the first time they held a portable phone the size of a shoe in their hands, it was nothing like where we are now, accustomed to having all knowledge at our fingertips.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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I just sort of go along and say what I think -and that's all you can do in life, really.
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I thought I could, and thought I would, swim a lot quicker - much quicker.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Pay attention to science and not myths: We think liars won't look you in the eyes, but it turns out an honest person will only look you in the eyes about 60 percent of the time.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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Skin cancer became personal to my family when my father was diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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The older I get, the better I was.
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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
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You know, more children die under the age of five when the parents are not educated.
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The truth is, people go to shows because they want a show. They want showbiz. When people talk about a show they saw it's not because they heard a song, it's because they were excited and geared up about the show.
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Casualties? What do I care about casualties?
