Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes
Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
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I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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As I always like to keep in mind about everything: Don't fight the trend.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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I think I take on a little more responsibility when push comes to shove. I'm not scared to fail.
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There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.
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A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.
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You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.
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Nana (to Mariam): When I'm gone, you'll have nothing in this world. You are nothing!
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I really do not care what the white world is doing. I care about black people building the monument on slavery.
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Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.
