Andrea Hirata Quotes
I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Our emerging workforce is not interested in command-and-control leadership. They don't want to do things because I said so; they want to do things because they want to do them.
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My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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I've anchored my share of live coverage over the years, including car chases. At MSNBC, I often prayed the 'delay switch' would actually work as promised. And, I frequently wondered what I would do or say if a violent and graphic incident accidentally aired on my broadcast.
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[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!
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So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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Buying land is not like buying antique. It is not the only deal available.
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I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
