Ann Nocenti Quotes
I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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The hope that people walk into poker halls with and the despair they leave with was something I researched by actually visiting these poker halls.
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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Sometimes I wonder if there's something wrong with me. Perhaps I've spent too long in the company of my literary romantic heroes, and consequently my ideals and expectations are far too high.
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All of my wildness is in the writing. I have discovered I have to be orderly and boring in my personal life to be wild in my work.
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So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
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I don't think most people are all heroic or all villainous, so I find ambiguity of motivations to be a natural human condition.
