Arthur Hailey Quotes

I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.

Arthur Hailey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: April 5, 1920 - November 24, 2004

Topics

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The British 'A Night to Remember' is so beautifully done and so well-constructed.

Robert Osborne

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I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

Matthew Lewis

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Although the flagship brand, Pepsi-Cola, has always been second to Coca-Cola, the Frito-Lay division is ten times larger than its largest competitor, Diamond Foods, Inc., of San Francisco. Its products take up whole aisles at Walmart.

John Seabrook

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I don't know what Swiss musicians need to do to be heard beyond the borders of their own country. It was always clear to me that I belong everywhere, that music belongs everywhere. It simply never occurred to me that I had to limit myself to a country.

Sophie Hunger

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My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

Tom Stoppard

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My sense of myself is that I was a rather unformed kind of person trying to make myself up out of bits of spit and string.

Robyn Davidson

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The tombstone is about the only thing that can stand upright and lie on its face at the same time.

Mary Wilson Little

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I've spent my life defending the Net, and I do feel that if we don't fight online crime, we are running a risk of losing it all.

Mikko Hypponen

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I don't like to set myself goals because then you might fail to reach them. I just go with the flow.

Asa Butterfield

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Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

Athanasius

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Man is by nature competitive, combative, ambitious, jealous, envious, and vengeful.

Arthur Keith

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In Ronald Reagan's case, he always bore with him this extraordinary ability to radiate confidence, optimism, clarity, a blitheness of spirit, in what other people saw as chaos. And after the 1970s, that was catnip.

Rick Perlstein

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