Nicole Brossard Quotes
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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You can tell a lot about a person just by watching their facial expressions. But there are times when it's best to hide your feelings, especially at work.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.
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Certain struggles never end.
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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
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Most of the best writing, the most creative writing, the most interesting, the most out-of-the-box kind of stuff, is being done on cable, you know, and on the computer. I mean, whatever it is, Amazon or Netflix or something. Because they're just willing to take chances, you know, and there's a market for it.
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More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
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I made my first million pounds at the age of 26. As a little girl, I said I would retire when I had made my first million. The reality was different. When I did make it, I wanted to make another million, and another, and another after that.
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On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decision-making and rows between member states.
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A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.
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Most of us are inclined to look upon success as coming in some mysterious way through advantages that we do not have. Perhaps because we do have them, we don't see them. The obvious is often unseen.
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My novels are about a generation of Americans who lived between 1940 and 2000, who resisted the postwar political and cultural forces by choosing a wandering life of impoverishment and wonder. Inevitably, race and economics are a big part of their stories. Childhood, childishness, and children are never far.
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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
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Loving a woman is always political.
