Ali Babacan Quotes
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Even if your novel occurs in an unfamiliar setting in which all the customs and surroundings will seem strange to your reader, it's still better to start with action. The reason for this is simple. If the reader wanted an explanation of milieu, he would read nonfiction. He doesn't want information. He wants a story.
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Success is so fleeting; even if you get a good book deal, or your book is a huge success, there's always the fear: 'What about the next one?'
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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Oftentimes, people stay where they are in life simply because of fear. But do you know that fear isn't reality? It's only a thought in your mind.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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Once people realized that, 'Hey, we're going to be left on Earth here, and everything is going to hell quickly,' sci-fi soon became about our own self-destruction.
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We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.
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Honestly, I don't buy papers or the weeklies. I think when something messy does happen, you just need your closest friends and family all around you, and it's nothing to do with anyone else.
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I write about whatever turns up. Every single day, I'm sitting down for three to five hours in the evenings wrestling away and producing far too much verse.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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I've been asked a million times to move to Nashville, but I just can't seem to do it.
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If you asked someone who was a Maori about how they felt about how they were treated in Australia or New Zealand, you'll get an answer. They'll have something to tell you. And you might not like what you hear.
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The mere fact of having a Security Council meeting at ministerial level will send out a very sharp message indeed to the Syrians.
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As a believer in the free market, the sooner you have people with a job - the better chance they have a job, the sooner they are employed - the sooner they become consumers. And the sooner they become consumers, the sooner they become deciders about their own health care decisions.
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In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough!
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'The Economist' is a biased organization.
