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Wilbur Smith Quotes

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality:
Birth: January 9, 1933

Topics

World First Real Starting Again

I want to write a studio movie, but probably one that's for me to be in.

Me Want Write Studio Movie

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

Do The Right Thing Looking Think Try

God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them.

Jean-Claude Juncker

God Financial More Write Who Than

It reminds me to say that staying local should never be about looking at the world through a closed window, but about making a home then throwing the doors open and inviting the world in.

Home Me Window World Looking Doors

I've swam with great white sharks.

Rob James-Collier

Great Sharks White

If you're white working with non-white people, you will be branded as a colonialist by some people, regardless of your efforts or intentions.

People You White Will Intentions

A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.

Mary Pope Osborne

Childhood War Saturday Games 1950s

I like crime thrillers. I like heist movies.

Movies Crime Like Thrillers

It's a tribal state, and it always will be. Whether we like it or not, whenever we withdraw from Afghanistan, whether it's now or years from now, we'll have an incendiary situation. Should we stay and play traffic cop? I don't think that serves our strategic interests.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Think Situation Play Now Traffic

I like being busy.

Christopher Lloyd

Busy Being Like Being Busy

You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.

School Happy High School You Know

My goals are for the U.S. team to get to the second round of the World Cup and to win a championship here in the U.S. with my club team the Columbus Crew.

Goals Team Win World Club Here

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