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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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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If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.
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This may just be me, but I feel like everyone's dream is to live as an American high school student. There are so many teen films set in America that you live vicariously through them, anyway.
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Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.
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Military intervention for reasons of ideology or nation building is not an Eisenhower or Nixon or Reagan tradition. It is not a Republican tradition. It is a Bush II-neocon deformity, an aberration that proved disastrous for the United States and the Middle East.
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Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.
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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.
