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Wilbur Smith Quotes

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
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Birth: January 9, 1933

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I Am Me I Can Tell Southern Closet

That said, there are certainly still cooks out there who make fantastic historical cornbreads, though the old recipes have often been changed to include modern techniques and ingredients.

Said Old Out Ingredients Historical

I just don't want to do crap movies, man, because I just love that I can get up and talk about them and talk to journalists about stuff that I'm really proud of.

Love Man Proud I Can Want Movies

I'm a very thoughtful, forward-thinking, planner kind of person. I love Excel spreadsheets and five-year-plans, and I love to review every year how my New Year's resolutions went.

Love Year Thoughtful Resolutions New

There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.

Maxine Hong Kingston

Change Die Tradition Down Pure Myth

We believe strongly that all meaningful change comes from entrepreneurs.

Steve Jurvetson

Change Believe Meaningful Strongly

I was a gift to my mother. She was a remarkable person. God or nature, or whatever those forces are, smiled on her, then passed me the best of her.

Nature Mother God Best Me Gift

It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on Walter the Softy, and his ferocious grimace is to be replaced by a charming, boyish smile.

Smile Sad Losing Down Will Boyish

Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.

Business Day School Guilt Go Three

Never try to leap from a standstill.

Try Leap Never Standstill

If you put someone in a job who is thinking for even a moment about the next job, you have the wrong person.

Mary Callahan Erdoes

Moment Job Thinking Someone You Who

As I became a venture capitalist, it's almost like I went to the dark side for a while.

Dark Dark Side Side Venture Almost

It's fun to be a little bit different in the world, to make a few new trails of your own.

Fun World New Little Own Different

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