M. J. Rose Quotes
I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I spent a lot of time over in England wrestling at Butlins holiday camps for Brian Dixon and All Star Wrestling.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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Send out a cheerful, positive greeting, and most of the time you will get back a cheerful, positive greeting. It's also true that if you send out a negative greeting, you will, in most cases, get back a negative greeting.
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There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in ambiguity.
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I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.
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I'm realistic about my career as a novelist. I'm certainly not a superstar and far, far from a household name, but I feel successful.
