Lynn Samuels Quotes
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Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
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Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.
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I would like to put forward a simple thesis that should no longer be at all controversial: it is now objectively the case that our national interests are increasingly affected not just by what happens between states, but also by how people are treated within states.
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The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
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I love doing every role I do!
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
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The worship of youth has diminished - perhaps generally - in recent years.
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I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.
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I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.
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It is common, and encouraged by many journals, for research to be judged by the impact factor of the journal that publishes it. But as a journal's score is an average, it says little about the quality of any individual piece of research.
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My family is basically Gypsies - for real.
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I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.
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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
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I had gone to New York with no plan at all. I did a lot of jobs - barman, teacher, security guard, postman and construction worker - and I was meeting many eccentric characters, and they were saying funny things, which I always wrote down.
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I don't think being monogamous is a natural instinct for human beings, but it doesn't mean I don't believe in monogamy or true love. I believe in finding a soul mate. Monogamy can be hard work for some people. I don't think it applies to everybody, and I don't think a lot of people can do it.
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While tourism is often resource-intensive, it is a major driver of poverty reduction in developing countries.
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There is only one history of any importance, and it is the history of what you once believed in, and the history of what you came to believe in.
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
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I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.
