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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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'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
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I fell in love with electricity.
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Be real with yourself in whatever area of your life and your game that you need improvement on. Once you figure that out, you just have to go out and work on it. For me, it's footwork. I constantly work on it, and it's a never-ending process.
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I don't care what I do - act, stand-up, write, direct - it doesn't matter as long as I'm being creative and it's good work.
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I want to inspire other young kids, no matter what their background is or where they're from or anything like that, that they can go out there and, if you work hard, you can do anything.
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Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.
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I am a working person. I always work, study or do research for my novel. I even work on Sunday.
