Aung San Suu Kyi Quotes

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: activist
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: June 19, 1945

Topics

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If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.

Jennifer Weiner

MenYouHorrorWriteFictionNotice

In the spring of 1988, my wife, Joan Didion, and I were approached about writing a screenplay based on a book by Alanna Nash called 'Golden Girl,' a biography of the late network correspondent and anchorwoman Jessica Savitch.

John Gregory Dunne

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I don't have huge bank accounts. I'd love one. But it wouldn't change much. I don't have any expensive habits. I'm not a car collector or any of that nonsense. But I'd love to be incredibly wealthy for no reason at all.

John Lydon

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Part of America is we've always had people that can get things done.

Stephen Pagliuca

PeopleAmericaDoneAlwaysThings

Children's publishing is the jewel in the crown of British publishing.

Tony Bradman

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I don't like losing. I don't want to lose. I don't want to be associated with losers.

Rohan Marley

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I suppose if I did get into a situation with a friend where we both liked the same girl, I like to think we'd sit down maturely and decide who was going to get in there, and then the other would stand aside.

Luke Pasqualino

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Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited.

Don Rose

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The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.

Dennis Miller

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I don't necessarily want to hear about my talent or my greatness as an actor.

Douglas Booth

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The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.

David Whyte

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I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

David Shields

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