M. J. Rose Quotes
Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.
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It takes three to make a child.
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My specialty is two things: music or really strange stories.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave all of us foreign, and particularly Latino, directors a big break.
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Modesty is good. But not when it comes at the cost of honesty.
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I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
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I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.
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I remember I got an ALMA award for an actor being on three shows simultaneously.
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I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.
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For two decades the state has been taking liberties, and these liberties were once ours.
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
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The heptathlon is made up of seven events, and people have strengths and weaknesses.
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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.
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Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.
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Books on their own aren't insanely expensive compared to other things; three large cappuccinos cost more than a paperback, and two and a half gallons of gas cost more than a paperback.
