M. J. Rose Quotes
More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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I think I am one of the smallest surviving brands.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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My awkward stage extended well into high school.
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The paradox of being in an industry where other people are usually the gatekeepers: publishers, editors - there are a lot of barriers to having control over your career. But coming out of hip-hop, the mindset was always to create your own.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
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The first drafts of my novels have all been written in longhand, and then I type them up on my old electric. I have resisted getting a computer because I distrust the whole PC thing. I don't think a great book has yet been written on computer.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
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I finally broke into the prison I found my place in the chain Even damnation is poisoned with rainbows
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More than 3,500 hardcover novels are published each year. Even the most avid reader buys fewer than one a week.
