George Michael Quotes
This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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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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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
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Today I began the novel that I determined to be great.
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I would like to be more active outside of Israel.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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My father was a military attache, so I've been traveling all my life.
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A week is a long time in politics.
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People who work every day are kind of scared of things they don't understand.
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When people think about reparations, they immediately think about people who've been dead for 100 years.
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I didn't intend to run for public office. I didn't really think about it.
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We should craft our laws to allow images of criminal suspects to be captured in public - but also to make sure that the government does not unduly infringe on the privacy rights of innocent citizens.
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I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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I am called an Islamic fundamentalist by Rushdie. My critics in Pakistan say I am a Zionist agent. I must be doing something right.
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Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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I do endless chopping and preparing things. I really find that relaxing. I do a lot of thinking as I am chopping and cooking.
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If someone were to ask me before I made the NBA, you going to have to go through all this, you're going to have to sign your soul away to play in the league, I still would have done it.
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The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.
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I think self-love isn't some destination you get to and you are then incapable of feeling those feelings, but a journey in which you adapt your experiences to make for a happier life.
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We entered the 20th century trying to deal with three ideas purporting to define or describe or explain three spheres of action, development and conflict: Darwin on the natural world, Freud on the internal world, Marx on the economic world.
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Citing a familiar 'American joke': In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?
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This is a very fickle business. It's really about how much you value the other things in your life. I still value too many other things more than I do fame.
