Amber Cope Quotes
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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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Some writers think that fiction is the space of great neutrality where all humans share the same concerns, and we are all alike. I don't think so. I'm interested in class warfare because I think it's real.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.
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My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.
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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.
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Beloved friends and comrades... the national Libertarian Party is dead.
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I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.
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I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
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Speech at the Nobel Banquet (10 December 1979).
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You never needed anybody.If you had ever bothered to come to know me, you'd know that that is the exact opposite of the truth.Well, well. So we part in utter ignorance of each other.
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Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
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It is blood which moves the wheels of history.
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I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.
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Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
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Because of the 9/11 attacks, the framing of terrorism by politicians, the media, and the public too often in the past decade and a half has been that it is Islamist political violence that is the terrorism we need to be concerned about.
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What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me.
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I've always had, like, from the age of about 11, I've had such an intolerance for bad behaviour of actors that I don't think I was ever going to be that person.
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Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.
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I take classes to be a mortician.
