Colin Bateman Quotes
“Bookselling is like prostitution, you sell your wares, you close your eyes, and you never fall in love with the clients. You also keep your fingers crossed that they won't ask for anything perverted.”Colin Bateman
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
Lady Gaga -
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
Finley Peter Dunne -
To ask if I am mischievous is the understatement of all time.
Malcolm Gets -
When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.'
Quentin Tarantino -
I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads.
Hank Azaria -
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Emma Goldman
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We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?
Lee Iacocca -
Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.
Luke Rhinehart -
There is always a place where, if you listen closely in the night, you will hear a mother telling a story and at the end of the tale, she will ask you this question: 'Ou libéré?' Are you free, my daughter?" My grandmother quickly pressed her fingers over my lips. Now," she said, "you will know how to answer.
Edwidge Danticat -
The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
Oscar Wilde -
It's great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who's bald.
Jack Roy -
I drifted into photography like one drifts into prostitution. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and eventually I did it for the money.
Philippe Halsman
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Never take what's offered, always ask for more.
Jennifer Donnelly -
People always ask about the transition from TV show to a movie, but it felt like just going to a different school. You don't really notice the transition, when you're in the moment.
Shailene Woodley -
Were to ask whether the writers recommend visiting Mexico City, the response would be both firm and passionate: “Yes, of course.” Because this is the best city on the planet, in spite of itself.
Paco Ignacio Taibo II -
If you ask: What is the good of education? The answer is easy: Education makes good men and good men act nobly.
Plato -
Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is.
Plutarch
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If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
Nora Roberts -
The wind is blowing. Adore the wind.
Pythagoras -
Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'
Betty MacDonald -
You couldnt make headlines with raised eyebrows
Donald Mason -
Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
Thomas Hobbes -
“Bookselling is like prostitution, you sell your wares, you close your eyes, and you never fall in love with the clients. You also keep your fingers crossed that they won't ask for anything perverted.”
Colin Bateman