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Alistair Maclean Quotes

I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing.

Alistair Maclean

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: scottish
Birth: April 28, 1922 - February 2, 1987

Topics

Writing Enjoy Born Writer

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

John F. Kennedy

Alone Great War Victory Settle Lead

The black community sees itself as one group, and they are all experiencing the same experiences as a group with racism and whatnot, growing up in this country.

Community Racism Growing Up Black Up

More and more I understand that it's very fine not to know where you come from.

You Know Understand More Where Fine

I've been in basketball a long time, and nobody is more of a competitor than I am.

Time I Am Basketball Long Long Time

With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career.

Women Great Art Men Career Late

I don't need to be liked, but I need to be vital - on set or on stage - and I think that probably would be my advice: Stay vital. It's about saying 'no' and asking the tough questions and believing in yourself when no one else will, but you have to know the rules to break them.

Logan Marshall-Green

Yourself Saying Tough Think Advice

What the advertisers are trying to do by eliminating residuals is the most appalling form of greed that I cry thinking about it.

Thinking Greed Trying Cry Most Form

I owe my discovery of the Hot Club of Cowtown to Kinky Friedman, leader of the Texas Jewboys. When I saw that Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys were headlining the 2003 Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Festival, I thought it my duty to check out the band that had inspired the Texas Jewboys.

Leader Music Poetry Texas Thought

The 2012 Olympics is a fantastic incentive for everyone to help leave a sporting legacy and show that Britain is truly a great sporting nation.

Bradley Wiggins

Great Legacy Help Nation Leave Show

I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.

Life Today Beginning Woman I Am You

I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.

Go Want Way Write Something Another

But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film.

Peter Sarsgaard

Work Family Time Think Look Way

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