Richard Flanagan Quotes

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.

Richard Flanagan

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I live a fantastic life. Why should I complain about awards?

Viola Davis

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Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.

Matt Haig

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I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.

Jeffery Deaver

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If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

Andy Rooney

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Khaki trousers soon became the province of hipsters like Jack Kerouac and Miles Davis. They were taken to new heights by Ralph Lauren, who helped popularize them among college professors and preppy men.

Roger Stone

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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.

Michael Jordan

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We think the whole world's going to change, and forget that human beings are still human beings; we have the same five senses, we still interact the same way, we still love and hate the same way, but marketers lose track of that. But then it comes down to earth.

Michael K. Powell

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Obviously, I believe in clean sport and want to do all that I can, but at the same time, you can only control yourself.

Mo Farah

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It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.

Luis Alberto Urrea

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That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

Don Yaeger

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I am very proud to be Brazilian and more motivated than ever to demonstrate what I can do.

Bruno Senna

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You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything.

Ali Krieger

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