Margaret Drabble Quotes
How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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Nothing exists except through language.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Because everybody else was investing in the consumer Internet, I did, too.
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Life is very, very simple and easy to understand, but we complicate it with the beliefs and ideas that we create.
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If we look at things scientifically, there is more than enough food and material goods on Earth to take care of all people's needs - if managed correctly.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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I'm not superstitious in my normal daily life but I get that way about writing, even though I know it's all bullshit. But I began that way and so, that's the way it is. My ritual is I never use a typewriter or computer. I just write it all by hand. It's a ceremony. I go to a stationary store and buy a notebook and then fill it up.
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How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.
