Antiphanes Quotes
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The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.
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I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.
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Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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I wrote large chunks of 'The Impostor' and 'The Good Doctor' on a beach in Goa.
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O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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I'm sorry to say I'm very lizard-like. My skin is dry, so covering my face in greasy antioxidants is a better alternative.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses - they don't really work for me. I have a really moderate, simple routine. I like to do yoga, Pilates, dance, and things like that.
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I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.
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I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.
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I believe in much more diplomacy, not less.
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Eventually I just want to live a normal life. I want to get married and have children and cook, wash... all the things that I do now. My background is very normal and steady, and that's what I like.
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I always look to people and think whether they seem well-loved or not well-loved. That's one way I walk through life. Do they have some core that withstands the ravages? Everyone gets pulled down in life and has good moments. But it always interests me how people withstand things.
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I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.
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I love football, I've never really taken an interest in anything else.
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And I felt so foreign, lying there, the wind howling outside our window. What was I doing here? Who was Rafe, really? Can you just put a part of yourself on hold? And if you do, does it cease to be true? Straight people have it so much easier. They don’t understand. They can’t. There’s no such thing as openly straight.
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The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.
