Alexander McCall Smith Quotes

There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness, in that people tend to be related to one another.

Alexander McCall Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Given free rein, our imagination can get infinite.

Jim Harrison

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You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.

Joe Bastianich

WineEnjoyYouBottleMuch

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

John Burdett

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When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

Melissa McCarthy

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Almost the first thing you see after entering the Houdini exhibition at the Jewish Museum is a large-screen film of Harry Houdini hanging by his ankles upside-down from a tall building, high over a sea of men in fedoras, and thrashing his way out of a straitjacket.

Robert Gottlieb

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Those who have known the quality of my work and the many public statements I have made over the course of my life must know that I am a strong supporter of Women's Rights.

Angela Lansbury

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I know, when I was in film school, some of my films were silly, but a lot of them were more dramatic. I don't think I intentionally set out to do comedy stuff. I guess that's a consequence of coming up working with David O. Russell and skewing toward those sensibilities.

Jeff Baena

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A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.

Amanda Schull

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When you don't play those big matches for a few years, it's tough to play back-to-back after that.

Stan Wawrinka

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I have an incredibly dry sense of humor.

Rob Van Dam

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When I think back to some of the most fun nights of my life, it was just me out dancing without a care in the world. It's a release, an outlet.

Anne Hathaway

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Selena is my angel. She is my biggest inspiration. Being from San Antonio, Texas, I really feel that connection to her because she had a lot of performances and a lot of her most iconic performances in San Antonio. Back in my hometown, we love her. We all, as a community, celebrate her and adore her. We keep her memory alive.

Ally Brooke

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