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Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

The local community is very important in one's life; the feelings of identification with a place and people.

Alexander McCall Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Life Community People Feelings Place

I have very strong views on TV. There's no diversity, there's no choice. Things are decided by committee.

Diversity Strong Choice Committee TV

You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.

Amitabh Bachchan

I Am World Society Story You Acting

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

Animal Prison Think You Cooperation

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Life You Wheel Always Where Started

As soon as I had proved this and, of course, also the normal pointing action and reactions in all other extremities and joints, I stopped the experiment.

Action Experiment Normal Soon Course

There is a friend of mine that is very into the comic book world, and he showed me '300,' and I looked at it, and I said, 'Wow, that could be a great film.'

Rodrigo Santoro

Friend Great Me World Book Said

I try not to take sleep medication.

Michael Rosbash

Sleep Try Take Medication

The whole kind of post-World War I settlement that formed the modern Middle East is in danger of collapsing, and we can - we, the United States, you know, the preeminent power in the world - we can say that we want to ignore that, but how long can we avert our gaze? And how long can we stay out?

Power War World Ignore Long You

There are times when you got to put a little 'extra' in, especially on a card at WrestleMania or SummerSlam because it's no time to hold anything back. You have to pull out all of the stops.

Time You Back Out Little Anything

We don't woo our wives with clubs. We don't leave old folks on ice floes. And maybe the time has come to quit diving into rip tides to save people we don't know. We've outgrown a lot of survival-of-the-fittest strategies, and risking our lives for strangers might be one of them.

Christopher McDougall

Time People Ice Strangers Know Quit

I think good publicists are just like good mommies - always looking out, making sure folks are comfortable and making sure that folks are on time and making sure that folks are getting what they need and know what they need to do.

Good Time Looking Think Know Need

When I work with young people, I grab energy from them by the handsful.

Work People Energy Young Grab Them

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