Georgie Fame Quotes
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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Work is what saves you.
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I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.
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I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.
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I couldn't care less about business.
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I read a lot of science fiction, but I also mixed it up with a lot of other genres: crime, literary fiction, as well as nonfiction. Author-wise, I'm a fan of Stephen King, Lauren Beukes, Robert McCammon, Raymond Chandler, Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker and Gail Simone, among many others.
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In countries like China and Indonesia, badminton is like a religion. Players get mobbed in the street. In China, it is a national sport, and Lin Dan, their star player, is treated like David Beckham.
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The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and friezes and antiques grasped.
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I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.
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One who obeys himself suffocates as surely as one who obeys others.
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From my experience dealing with Sichuan after the 2008 earthquake I started to understand very clearly the character of local government. They will do anything. You will never really wrongly accuse them of anything because they do everything.
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I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
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I don't like inherited wealth.
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I can't deny 'Fleabag''s a very personal piece, but it's not autobiographical.
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I think Snapdeal could become the Alibaba of India.
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It is more than a book, it is an institution which rules the Christian world.
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You've gotta have a healthy balance of keeping your eye on how much money is in your account and making sure that it can sustain a healthy, happy life.
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There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
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Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.
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If you're going to succeed, you've got to be like one of those punch-drunk fighters in the old Warner Bros. boxing pictures: too stupid to fall down, you just keep slugging and stay on your feet.
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I'd never heard anything like it before. It was like banshee music. This absolutely otherworldly voice, singing about a book, and as a bookish kid, I was always fascinated by anything, any music that seems to be about or inspired by books.
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Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.
