Colleen McCullough Quotes
In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.
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Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.
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It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.
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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
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Rituals are the end of fidelity and honesty, and the beginning of confusion.
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We have conquered for ourselves a place in the sun. It will now be my task to see to it that this place in the sun remains our undisputed possession, for our future lies upon the water.
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I own I never really warmed To the reformer or reformed. And yet conversion has its place Not halfway down the scale of grace.
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In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary.
