Carlo Alban Quotes
You're always defined in relation to the environment that you're in and to the people that you're around.
Quotes to Explore
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Remember, either you control your money or it will control you.
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.
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I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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Science fiction is not formulaic.
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.
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American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
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There is no one who is more conflicted in the Marvel Universe, in my opinion, than Matthew Murdock. Is he his father's son, or is he the son of his father? Is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems in a court room, or is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems with his fist?
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I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.
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When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.
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This agreement sends a message that intrusive and deceptive practices will not be tolerated.
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I'm very much about letting other people shine, because it makes us all shine brighter.
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My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
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If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.
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You're always defined in relation to the environment that you're in and to the people that you're around.
