M. J. Rose Quotes
'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
Quotes to Explore
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
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What I really enjoy the most is seeing what the crowd likes. I enjoy making people laugh.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.
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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
