Nadia Giosia Quotes
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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Back in the 1960s, I got a superb education for very little money. The bill for my first year at Harpur College in New York was a few hundred dollars.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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I think I just have a natural operatic aesthetic. I can't help it.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I always wanted to be a star.
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Becoming a father is the biggest change you go through in life - at least that I've gone through in life.
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I've flown halfway around the world to kiss a girl. I jumped on a plane and flew to Australia.
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Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
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Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.
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Exercising with a trainer makes my quality of life go through the roof.
