Alexander McCall Smith Quotes
The maid glanced at her employer. 'Oh, you have heard of me,' she said. 'I am glad that he speaks of me. I would not like to think that nobody speaks of me.' 'No,' said Mma Ramotswe. 'It is better to be spoken of than not to be spoken of. Except sometimes, that is.'
Alexander McCall Smith
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It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
F. H. Bradley
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
Edgar Allan Poe
It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
Jack Black
I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
Yo-Yo Ma
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
Earl Nightingale
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid
Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.
Angie Martinez
I always like to get local music when I'm in another country.
April Winchell
It's predominantly a male society, predominately a male culture, predominantly a male theatre, and predominantly male critics, but that's changing, definitely.
Marianne Elliott
I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
Yandel
Wisin & Yandel
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
Flannery O'Connor
The maid glanced at her employer. 'Oh, you have heard of me,' she said. 'I am glad that he speaks of me. I would not like to think that nobody speaks of me.' 'No,' said Mma Ramotswe. 'It is better to be spoken of than not to be spoken of. Except sometimes, that is.'
Alexander McCall Smith