Andrew Pyper Quotes
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We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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I think every once in a while country has lost its way, but found its way back. It's always going to drift away from the traditional side, but then find a way to return. There's room for all kinds of influences be it pop, blues, gospel or whatever. But I will always say that I think we need more traditional country music coming down the pike.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
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What is deservedly suffered must be borne with calmness, but when the pain is unmerited, the grief is resistless.
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The one product I can't live without is my mascara. I'm addicted to long eyelashes and think girls just look so pretty with long lashes!
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
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The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
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I have a zero tolerance for sanctimonious morons who try to scare people.
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I'm not really a green juice kind of guy. I like feeling downtrodden and worthless when I walk around London and have someone click their tongue at me and tell me to speed up.
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I think you can say a lot of evil behavior by companies is short-term optimization.
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'You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?' Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. 'Well, a little does no harm.'
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He was neither lazy nor incompetent; he merely had occupational claustrophobia.
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Plowboy: You truly feel that all the major changes in history have been caused by science and technology?
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The principles of pleasure are not firm and stable. They are different in all mankind, and variable in every particular with such a diversity that there is no man more different from another than from himself at different times.
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One of the greatest investments of our lifetime has been New York City real estate, and investors made the highest returns when they bought stuff during the 1970s and 1980s when people were getting mugged. The lesson is that you make the most money when you buy stuff that's out of consensus.
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I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
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Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
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What sweet, what happy days had I,When dreams made Time Eternity!
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My #1 job as a thriller author is to give readers the best white-knuckle thrill ride I am capable of. I am first and foremost in the entertainment business. If that suspenseful ride is also terrifying because it hits really close to home, then I am once again doing what I am supposed to do as a thriller author.
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To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.
