J. M. G. Le Clezio Quotes
I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.
Quotes to Explore
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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I realised that the idea of enforcing sharia is not consistent with Islam as it's been practised from the beginning. In other words, Islam has always been secular, and I had been totally ignorant of the fact.
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I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.
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New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.
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Because the world is in economic recession, which worsened since this drama happened, and our country will bear the burden of all of these consequences.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?'
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I've been a paratrooper all my life.
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I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.
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I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.
