Arthur Golden Quotes
What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
Quotes to Explore
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
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When you're as chaotic as I am, you need a very firm structure in your life.
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As long as there have been elections, there have been attempts to keep eligible people from voting.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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I clean my face twice a day with cold water and don't go to sleep with make-up on.
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I'm intrigued by people who are super adept at manipulating their own image. We all do it to a certain extent.
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Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
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I find it to be easier to write from a man's point of view.
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There's gonna be people that don't like you, regardless. But I take on the mentality of, 'Look, I'm gonna do whatever I want to do. If people don't like, they don't like it.'
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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
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What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.
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In the seventeenth century, it was held by some that inside a human sperm there was a minute human being - a homunculus - that was planted inside the womb. Development consisted of the miniature homunculus enlarging and passing through birth and on to maturity-just like inflating a balloon.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.
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I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.
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What I had to do was keep the story within certain limits of what was, of course, plausible.
