Madeleine Albright Quotes
Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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I can now say that the more I learnt about Islam, the more tolerant I became.
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Life is made up of marble and mud.
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Let us have peace.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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I am a very selfish person.
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A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!
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Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.
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We're seeing the development of tactics in Iraq, such as suicide bombing. Insurgents have been driving cars with explosives into hotels and office buildings. The recruitment may be even more prolific outside Iraq.
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She no longer believes very strongly in belief... Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. As happens when one writes: believing whatever has to be believed in order to get the job done.
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I'll never have to write my memoirs now after reading this. She had six husbands, at least six lovers - why, my life is so dull compared to hers! I've had one husband, one daughter, one house and no lovers.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
