I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small. ~Robert Dessaix
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In many ways, theatre is more rewarding for a writer. I used to think it was like painting a wall - that when the play is finished, it's done; but now I realise it's more like gardening; you plant the thing, then you have to constantly tend it. You're part of a thing that's living. ~Lee Hall
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You have to believe in love stories and prince charming and that eventually you'll find your own happily ever after. ~Taylor Swift
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I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise. ~Charles de Secondat
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My whole life has been stability. People who have worked with me have for a long time. Air Asia is the same people who started it. ~Tony Fernandes
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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age. ~Simone de Beauvoir
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I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to. ~Rodney Dangerfield
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Drinking a daily cup of tea will surely starve the apothecary. ~Chinese Proverb
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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ~Edith Wharton
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After dinner sit awhile, after supper walk a mile. ~English Proverb
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Our little force will march on tomorrow or the day after. ~Peter Stuyvesant
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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ~John Desmond Bernal
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There are no true friends in politics. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle. ~Heather Brewer
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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I am fortunate in that I am a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with. ~Paul Kane
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I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style. ~Frank Black
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There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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He who lets the goat be laid on his shoulders is soon after forced to carry the cow. ~Italian Proverb
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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. ~Slovenian Proverb
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Life is hard; it's harder if you're stupid. ~John Wayne
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It is harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next. ~Pink
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The rain follows after the forest. ~Hawaiian Proverb
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