Ali Smith Quotes
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.Ali Smith
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
Barbara Demick -
We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
Pankaj Mishra -
When I make a live-action movie, it's a very physical process. It's like running a marathon.
Zack Snyder -
I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
Ted Turner -
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
Oscar Hijuelos
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I'm not a fanatic about exercising. For me, it's about moderation and balance.
Halle Berry -
The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
Os Guinness -
If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
Sam Worthington -
Apartheid is inherently a practice of violence.
Oliver Tambo -
The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
Campbell Scott -
My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
Carl Schurz
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
Ian Hislop -
The Irish job was something that had to be sorted out.
Jack Charlton -
I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
I was never a big fashion person, and so I'm sure I wore whatever. I was growing, and so I just wore whatever clothes that weren't that expensive and made sense at the time. But I'm sure that I look back and say, 'What was I thinking?' My adolescence was more in the '80s, and that's more my cross to bear.
Vince Vaughn -
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
Salman Rushdie -
I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
Taylor Hackford
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But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.
Eknath Easwaran -
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you're prepared for it.
Denzel Washington -
It's interesting because the first batch of really struggling with control and escape and all that happened when I was nearing adolescence, and the second one came with the onset of early menopause.
Marti Noxon -
Once you create a loyal customer base, it's tough for a competitor to take that away.
Joe Mansueto -
All I really want is a beat from Kanye West. I've met him, and I think he's real cool with us. If I get that beat, I'm going to rap the best verse I ever dropped - even if it's his worst beat.
Dominique Marquis Cole -
Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.
Ali Smith