Arabella Weir Quotes
My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it.
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Soccer matches should be something special, something people eagerly look forward to, something that brightens life.
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Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
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I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
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I love to be able to do something positive with what celebrity I have. I like to be able to make it about something bigger than me; if I can help in some way, I'm happy to do that.
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First, unreliability is not the sole preserve of fictional narrators. Second, the pleasure of patting oneself on the back for seizing on instances of unreliability and ignorance is, as the late Frank Kermode may or may not have pointed out, considerable.
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If you have a famous parent, you know that being famous doesn't make you superior to anyone else. It just means people smile at you more. Everyone was fawning all over my father, but of course, the way you look at your parents when you're a teen is often with a... more critical eye.
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My dad was a diplomat and after living in America, where I was born, he was posted to Cairo.
