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Alafair Burke Quotes

Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1969

Topics

Love Father Reading Nothing Worse

It's so much harder to keep your clothes on than take them off in this business. Even in Exotica, they wanted more nudity, but I didn't feel comfortable.

Business Feel Clothes Comfortable

You fouled a guy who needs to be fouled. If he's going to the basket, you don't give a knick-knack foul and then argue with the ref. You foul him so he knows, so the next guy coming behind him knows, so his team knows you can't go in the lane.

Team You Go Him Lane Coming

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

Food You Sex Important More Get

Nobody can compare themselves to what The Beatles went through. It was wild.

Nobody Wild Through Beatles Compare

The fact that I was a believer, a Christian, everybody immediately thought this guy's a minister, he's so nice and, oh by the way, he can play a little bit. The other thing for me is being undersized. What a great story, what an overachiever, kind of like Rudy.

Mike Singletary

Great Me Story Thought Christian

The chemistry at a table is so important. You must start with a carefully balanced mix of personalities. If the balance is off, and the stakes are too big for some of the players, it kills the game. Too small, and everybody gets bored.

Balance Small Start Game You Table

The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.

Control Game More Only Would Like

I'm in love with red. I think it's such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red it it. It's power, there's no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don't. I think its blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They're all magic.

Life Nature Love Strength Power Red

My sister's journal was the romantic one with boys, and mine was talking about my rock tumbler. We were so different and so similar.

Romantic Sister Talking Rock Journal

After its defeat in the Second World War, Japan, unlike Germany, failed to show true contrition or give a fulsome apology, though it showered its neighbours, including China, with generous economic assistance. Only in 1995 did it finally offer an apology, but this was of the most limited and formulaic kind.

War World Defeat Kind True Apology

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

Science Great Politics Religion Been

We take it for granted that because our shelves and supermarkets are heaving with food that there are no problems with food security. But we have limited land in the U.K., and climate disruption and population growth are putting pressure on food supply.

Growth Food Problems Pressure Land

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