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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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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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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All liaisons between homosexuals are conducted as though they were between a chorus girl and a bishop. In some cases both parties think they are bishops.
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The affair simply amounted to this, that they were to eat their dinner uncomfortably in a field instead of comfortably in the dining room.
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If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.
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Frankly speaking, making money isn't hard in itself... What's real hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
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To me, running is therapy. It's mood-altering and gets my endorphins going. It's also a great release and a great energy builder.
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Many young men, when they receive their first wife, are just so untrained. The woman, if she's not careful, will be overbearing and always ask permission for what she wants. And ladies, build up your husband by being submissive. That's how you will give your children success; you will want your children to be obedient, to be submissive to righteous living.
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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.
