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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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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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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..the long Russian word for creation: 'proisvedenie' - so different from its shorter counterparts in English, French and German - expresses for me the whole history and process of creation, lengthy, mysterious, infinitely complex and foreshadowed by divine predestination.
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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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My mom put me away at 7. I enjoyed it... Being in institutions, I got three meals a day, clothes.
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Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
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I had the erroneous conviction that all of history tended toward my birth and would diminish into chaos or inconsequence after I was gone. When you realize that's not so, the proper humility is to defer.
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To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.