Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes
So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
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Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I'll put the Packers' best players on defense. It's best for a team and good for its morale.
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I've just always been a bit of a dork.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.'
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To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.
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I knew there were calls for diversity in children's lit, but you always wonder as a person of color, how diverse is too diverse?
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The coolest thing for me to do was listen to Pearl Jam's 'Ten,' Nirvana's 'Nevermind,' or Soundgarden and play along to it and think about how awesome it would be to be in one of those bands and be up on stage. When I'd close my eyes at 13 and dream of being in Pearl Jam or one of those bands, it was exactly like how it is now with the band I'm in.
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Is the cinema more important than life?
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So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.
