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Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

Alexander McCall Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: scottish
Birth: August 24, 1948

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Positive Success Great Welcome Think

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Architecture Better Buildings Look

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

Talent Party Know Sitting Why Way

I go out there to win. People don't care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.

Success Business People Win Care Go

I find in music there's a space and a language I can use to express things in ways I can't describe conversationally.

Music Space Language Find I Can Use

Long ago, I became more interested in the real world than in make-believe.

World Long More Real Real World

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Family Food Down Sitting Meal

I've yet to see a correlation in my industry between great social media and great numbers.

Great Social Media Media Numbers See

I don't care how people treat me. I care about my message living on through other people.

People Me Treat Care Living Through

By cultivating rich social networks, by cultivating weak ties, not just close ties but the weak ties, by becoming connectors and by connecting others so that they connect us, we create a world in which these self-amplifying feedback loops feed on top of each other.

World Rich Feedback Create Top Weak

Without gay men, I am nothing.

Janice Dickinson

Men I Am Gay Nothing Without Am

I hadn't done just a straight-out comedy in a long time, just letting an ensemble do really good character acting, having them carry the movie as in my earlier pictures.

Good Character Time Comedy Acting

I think Chris Brown gets kind of dismissed as a gay writer, and I think Chris's books are really, really smart. I wish his books sold a little more widely.

Chuck Palahniuk

Smart Think Wish Gay Kind More

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