William Dalrymple Quotes
For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.
Quotes to Explore
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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I'm incredibly neurotic and a control freak. I like the thought that if there's going to be anyone to blame it's going to be me.
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I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.
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I work very hard and I'm worth every cent.
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Whether you watch 'Law and Order' all the time or not, everyone knows what it looks like. Everyone knows what the courtroom looks like, what the police precinct looks like.
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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.
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If I write the song, I get to name it.
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The passion to explore and not be afraid to fail - that's something I will always attribute to the Groundlings.
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I have the freedom to do what I want... bright people to talk to every day.
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There really isn't anything more refreshing then iced Coke out of the old-school glass bottles.
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My personal style depends on what I'm doing or where I am. I wear a lot of jeans and jean shorts and t-shirts, and I love leather jackets; it's pretty relaxed.
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If you're an attractive guy, everyone thinks you're successful just because of the way you look. I hate that.
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It takes such a commitment of passion and energy and time, and it's all so encompassing to direct that you've got to see the bullseye, and you know you can hit it - or at least get awfully close.
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Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…
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We envision a more Germany-style economy, where 20 percent of our workforce is in manufacturing. And we're not talking about banging tin in the back room. We're talking about high technology across the board, whether it's computer chips or cars or anything in between.
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If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
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I have fallen in love so many times. If one relationship ended, I would search for another girl. I was always madly in love with all the girls that I dated.
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For me they go hand in hand. When I travel it makes me want to write, when I read it makes me want to travel.
