Clive James (Vivian Leopold James) Quotes
Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel.
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I am completely, utterly obsessed with clothes. To an embarrassing extent.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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We've made some good beginnings with the New START Treaty, but a lot more can be done.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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If I have anything, it's tenacity.
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I believe everyone is mad when they are in love, and I don't think that can ever end.
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I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
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I'm like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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Tell your wife often how terrific she looks.
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I took physics, and lo and behold, there's a lot of physics in 'Lost.' I think for most people, liberal arts educations are more abstract, but for me, it's been a chance to apply the things I've learned more directly. I also took some Folklore and Mythology classes, and I think that a lot of that influenced me.
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The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!
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I said that if I were an industrialist or entrepreneur, I would invest in agriculture-based enterprises, for there is so much that can be done in manufacturing, in food preservation.
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I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'
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It’s one thing to have guts; it’s another to be crazy.
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Whatever I do, I want to be the best.
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If I used to ask myself, over a coffin, 'what good did it do the occupant to be born?' I now put the same question about anyone alive.
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It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of the estates of the colonists.
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Any writer my age almost can't get away from being influenced by Kurt Vonnegut, partially because of his simple, clear way of stating things. To read Vonnegut is to learn how to use economy words.
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If he checks your phone bills or shopping receipts, something isn't right. Controlling your partner in any way is unhealthy. I've been with my girlfriend for five years and it's important to me that she feels relaxed and free. I hate to see someone made to feel unsafe and helpless - particularly women as men are physically stronger.
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Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel.
