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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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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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people who go to India and to Africa and put their life in jeopardy to do what they believe is right.
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It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
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I believe that I have such a vanilla life.
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That materialistic life, that's not my god.
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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.
