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Ali Smith Quotes

I grew up completely alone but with all the comforts of knowing I had a cushioning family structure around me - and yet I could free myself from it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: 1962

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Family Alone Myself Me Free Knowing

I like pushing myself, and usually if I'm not good at something I just won't do it because I'm a perfectionist.

Matthew Morrison

Good Myself Something Because Just

When a French book becomes an international hit it is because of the author and not because of the language. The same goes for movies.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Book Language Movies Same Because

The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.

Life Work Car Will Automobile Come

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

Regret Give Who Themselves Those

It's indifference and ignorance that stops people from doing the right thing.

Ignorance People Doing The Right Thing

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people's lives.

Power Discipline People Control You

Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion.

Work Money People Savings Buy Hold

I started working a Saturday job at this French cafe from when I was about 14. I lived two minutes away from the cafe and went there every morning. One day, the manager asked if I wanted to work there. I'd never worked before, so thought I'd give it a go.

Brooklyn Beckham

Work Morning Day Job Thought Go

You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have.

Peter Blair Henry

Good Money World You Never See

Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation.

Resilience Generation High Lived Who

When I invite people over to my apartment, they usually don't like it because the music I play confuses the crap out of them - I'm making people listen to the 'Final Fantasy' soundtrack, and they're like, 'Why is this happening? Let's just leave and find somebody who wants us to have fun and not teach us about something.'

Music Fun People Have Fun Find Play

We often get blinded by the forms in which content is produced, rather than the job that the content does.

Job Content Get Rather Than Often

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