World Quotes
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I'm a shy person. I don't know if it's in my DNA to share with the world.
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It's nice to represent to other people in the world that Americans actually do know what's happening in the world, can speak other languages and are conscientious. The perception quite often is that we don't know what's beyond our county line.
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When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
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I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.
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Hollywood is kind of a bad world.
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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I have the biggest hair in the world - and that's official!
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It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn.
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I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.
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There's a huge wave of anti-establishment feeling. There's an enormous amount of anger. And it's collapsing governments and political movements across the world right now.
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If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.
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When we live our lives authentically, we discover our true place in the world for the first time.
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Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.
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If I had my own world I'd build you an empire from here to the far lands to spread love like violence!
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Probably over half of America does not have a passport. If young people could spend two weeks of their life in India or pick an African country to go to for 2-3 weeks and really see how life can be. That might be a real good thing because I think they would see things even if the trip was a nightmare. I think they might understand more of the mechanics of the world.
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When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.
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I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.
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My husband jokes that I'll invite people over for dinner and he won't know who they are or where I met them. But in my work world, I've never really been tempted to tell too much of my story.
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!
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According to Gur's theory of boredom, everything that happens in the world today is because of boredom: love, war, inventions, fake fireplaces - ninety-five percent of all that is pure boredom.
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You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.
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I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.
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I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.
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Most of the world around you doesn't read the Bible. So... God gives the world a living epistle- you.
