Malcolm de Chazal Quotes
The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.
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To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.
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The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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We have a choice. We can love our lives trying to conform to some nebulous standard, or we can live our lives seeing how everything works. When we step back and look at it that way, it is obvious that the attitude of fascination is the only intelligent one to bring to anything.
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Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not.
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If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
