- Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020
Way Quotes
Quotes on finding your own way.
These quotes describe the 'way' things really work - a blunt take on how managers actually get ahead in their careers, and a tongue-in-cheek trick for looking fit without the work. Related reading includes Best Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I tend to listen to music more than I read. I need to get into reading a bit more. The stuff I tend to read is usually non-fiction books more than fiction, but I've been trying to power my way through Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment,' and I do enjoy it.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
- Nov 07, 2020
The writer works in a lonely way.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the multi-format series. Within it they've found a way to retain Test matches and England v Australia in the Test arena, they were always my favourite matches to play in.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020