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 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 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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Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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Anything that's for free, people will take. They don't discriminate.
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I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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I am a very selfish person.
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True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
