Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

I would never inflict my bassoon on anybody really other than the long suffering audiences that come to the concerts of The Really Terrible Orchestra; which actually is really terrible.

Alexander McCall Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

John Cheever

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I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.

John Cornyn

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When I was a young artist, and I would go look at other artists' career retrospectives, and I was often disappointed with the lack of story line... What was missing to me was the story of where the artist came from and how they got to where they were.

Robert Gober

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My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system.

Robert Greenblatt

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Literally, my first audition after 'The Life Aquatic' was for the 'Criminal Minds' pilot.

Matthew Gray Gubler

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I arrived in the U.S. for graduate study in literature in the fall of 1986. I was twenty-three. After a year, I began to paint, even though I had come to the U.S. intending to become a writer.

Amitava Kumar

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Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

Sigmund Freud

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I love wearing a lot of color, and I am majorly into scarves. I'm the Beau Brummell of Fleetwood Mac, no doubt.

Mick Fleetwood

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I've been told I miss every pass made at me! It would be wonderful to have a partner, but in my mind, it has to be like making a product. The product has to be meaningful, impact people - it has to be a great product.

Joy Mangano

GreatPeopleMindMePartnerImpact

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

David Yates

YouKnowWantNeverDirectorBall

On vacation, you can wear all the colorful and casual clothing that you like, but you must always be elegant.

Christian Dior

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In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?

Chris Noth

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