Gerald Haslam Quotes
When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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The thing I find frustrating about rock music is, how different can you make an acoustic drum kit sound, an electric guitar and vocals? It's very stuck, whereas with electronic music, new sounds are being created.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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Many people who I respected were disappointed when I started 'Wine Library TV.' They thought I was dumbing down wine, but I always knew I was one of the biggest producers of new wine drinkers in the world, and people are realizing it now.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!
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There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
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I find that people in the food world are amazingly willing to talk about what they are doing, even when those things are quasi-legal or taboo.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
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Part of my affinity with urban music comes from being on 'Kids Incorporated,' 'cos we used to sit around and listen to Chaka Khan and Prince, and I got influenced by all that. Then gangsta rap got started, and I was infatuated with that - maybe that's why I'm fascinated by guns.
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I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.
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Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.
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Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
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The bedrock of 'Being Human' has to be characters. I would hope that even if suddenly we had a huge budget per episode, the foundation of the show, and the thing that actually makes it what it is, is character.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
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I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.
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When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.
