Bernard Fergusson, Baron Ballantrae Quotes
The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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If you do something, expect consequences.
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If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.
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The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo).
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I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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I do my job like I breathe.
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Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
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I may like L.A., but I want to know when the seasons are.
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Greece is an extreme case: a country where both the level of spending and the level of taxation were unsustainable!
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When I first hit the scene, it was just a lot of go, go, go, go, go. I have a lot of natural energy anyway, but it was over the top.
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No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles.
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We're not a family. We're the opposite of a family. We're people so lonely that when we're together we make a black hole of loneliness and everything else gets sucked down into it and is never seen again.
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My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.
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People expect you to be doing something cool all the time. In a normal life, that's not happening!
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We do not attract Russian money to Luxembourg with high interest rates.
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I have had a lot of cool offers to move into traditional media, but I'm not completely sold I have to do that.
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The lower classes are such fools. They waste their money on the pools. I bet, of course, but that's misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.
