Wilbur Smith Quotes

I work on my novels wherever I have a PC, and I have four or five places around the world where I do have a PC. These days you can just slip a little flash drive into your top pocket, fly for 12 hours, come to another place, plug it into a computer and you are away again.

Wilbur Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Sometimes, I tell my wife I have to take a car trip and collect new memories - I like to drive around at absolute random for weeks on end through the United States and parts of Canada. Or else I feel trapped, like you feel when your life is completely planned for months in advance, and you think you're not getting enough oxygen.

Jim Harrison

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The thing about school is that if you're forced into learning stuff, you're not going to be into it.

Joey Ramone

LearningSchoolYouGoingStuff

I started pursuing stand-up comedy in 12th grade.

Jermaine Fowler

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It's incredibly important to me that you remember a song right after the first or second time you hear it. That something sticks to you, something that makes you feel, 'I need to hear that song again.' That's fundamental. Something you want again. And again.

Max Martin

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When I decided to continue in the sport, I decided I would do whatever it takes to be the best figure skater I can be.

Max Aaron

BestI CanWhateverWouldContinue

For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.

Ron Moody

WorkMePerformanceYouActorFix

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

Michel Hazanavicius

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I don't know why my parents split up. I guess they just drifted apart, but I do know they stayed very good friends.

Minnie Driver

GoodParentsFriendsGood FriendsUp

Sometimes, I make 50 songs and pick out the best 10. I've been in the studio all day, all night, making the beat, writing the raps. You never know what's gonna be a hit.

Juicy J

BestDayWritingNightYouKnow

Let us all learn to be free, and to be loyal.

Jonathan Mayhew

FreeLearnLoyalUsLet Us

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

Domhnall Gleeson

GoodBestYourselfYouRunTry

I try to go home to Missouri every couple of months. I do that because I like my family, of course, but my mom doesn't know who Carine Roitfeld is. And as much as that horrifies me, it's a good way to keep your feet on the ground.

Derek Blasberg

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