M. J. Rose Quotes
It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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Most people consider me an optimist because I laughingly state that I would take my last two dollars and buy a money belt.
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I guess I am sometimes over the top on stage, but then, that is my personality. I'm over the top in real life, too.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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I'd love a job at Facebook.
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John Kenneth Galbraith doesn't get enough praise. The Affluent Society is a great insight, and has become so much a part of our understanding of contemporary capitalism that we forget where it began. It's like reading Hamlet and deciding it's full of quotations.
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We'd boil this whisky because we thought that would make it stronger. So we thought we were getting drunk, but in fact there'd be no alcohol left in it.
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Teen drug use went up dramatically in the 1990s.
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It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.
