Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to keep their attention - turning things into a game, for instance. And, when they do something good, positive reinforcement and praise.
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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We live in a digital world, but we're fairly analog creatures.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.
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Let me tell you what, reality is better than any script you could ever write.
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I had a test on my kidneys a few weeks back and found out I have two.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
