"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."

People, Books, Hearing, Importance

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"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."

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"Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution."

Barbara Amiel, British Journalist

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"Even during my youth, I can recall very few black people living on any kind of public assistance. People were working, doing some kind of job that was useful to the community."

Ed Smith, American Politician

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"The worst kind of lying I've ever done is keeping things from people."

Elijah Wood, American Actor

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"It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win."

Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, Angolan Statesman

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"Like it or not, the people of Arkansas sent me to Washington to represent them in this great body."

Mark Pryor, American Politician

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"People are essentially red meat. They are."

Max Cannon, American Artist

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"I am not afraid of aging, but more afraid of people's reactions to my aging."

Barbara Hershey, American Actress

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"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."

Ernst Toller, German Playwright

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"In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved."

Rupert Murdoch, American Publisher

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"My sexuality has never been a problem to me but I think it has been for other people."

Dusty Springfield, British Musician

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"Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing."

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"I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal."

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"When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down."

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"I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating."

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"I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long."

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"I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now."

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"Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in."

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"I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way."

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"The importance and influence of books on me has been cumulative: the result of hearing and reading lots of stories about interesting people and places."

People, Books, Hearing, Importance

"The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I'm not confident there will be any takers."

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