Alexandre Dumas Quotes
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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The only power you have is the word no.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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If you say something that undermines the stability of the country, then you have to be held accountable.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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Modern life is organised so that you benefit at the expense of the other, and the most extreme example of that is a camp.
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Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
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Barack Obama will never ignore our troops.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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I guess the headline is that you mustn't tough it out assuming it's 'normal' to feel incredible pain when you're preggo or post-partum, or be afraid to try a new specialist or a new kind of specialist if you have pain that isn't getting any better.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
