Corinne Maier Quotes
Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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After every war, there was a significant change in the music, and I can understand how that happened. If you participate in protecting the country, you think you can be part of it, but you come back home and it's worse than ever.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
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Cussing ain't for everybody.
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The only thing I regret in life is that I didn't practice basketball more.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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Different people's houses smell like different weird things. God forbid someone should come and nail down what my house smells like. It'd probably be a litter box... sweaty socks... and burnt bacon. That probably is what it smells like.
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I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.
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Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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I'm an idiot.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
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Of all things the worst to teach the young is dalliance, for it is this that is the parent of those pleasures from which wickedness springs.
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When it comes down to business, everybody is very businesslike... I have never felt any difficulty in dealing with any of these situations.
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When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition.
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If you break your finger, that's on you, right? But if you get a chronic illness, if you get a serious illness or life-threatening illness, that's something I think we should all share the cost in because we all face the same unknowns and the same risks.
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Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its mouth.
