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Wilbur Smith Quotes

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
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Birth: January 9, 1933

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Care You Burn Old Bones Much

On-camera stuff just hit. I decided to do it to supplement my voice-over career, but I ended up falling in love with it, and it actually hit a lot harder than my voice-over career.

Love Falling In Love Career Falling

I define talent as the rate at which you get better at something when you try. To be very talented means you get better faster and more easily than other people or other things that you try.

Angela Duckworth

Talent People Better You Try More

According to the belief, molecules closer together than 200 nanometers could not be told apart with focused light. This is because, in a packed molecular crowd, the molecules shout out their fluorescence simultaneously, causing their signal, their voices, to be confused.

Light Together Confused Focused Out

If there's anything you want to ask your parents, ask them before they go, because once they go, they're gone.

Parents You Go Want Ask Anything

I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.

Guitar Want Irreplaceable Get

When I am there at our global product development centers, I am meeting with the design team and reviewing design work being done there and meeting with engineers responsible for work being done specific to that region, meeting with purchasing team.

Work I Am Team Design Meeting Done

Since Castro took power, the Cuban people have been denied basic human freedoms. No freedom of religion, no freedom of the press, no political freedom. And the regime uses brutality and violence to suppress these freedoms and impose its will.

Freedom Power Religion People Will

There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.

Christopher Shays

Limits I Can Say Question Soldiers

I've played in bands with A-team players around. But unless they can play together, it doesn't do any good. And you can take guys who may not stand on their own up against a bunch of individuals they might be compared to, but you put 'em together, man, and they are unique unto themselves in a way that no one else can touch.

Good Together Man Stand You Unique

Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.

Passion Unity Help You Create Way

My own habit had always been to write about the things that ticked me off in a given day. If I kept a journal at all, I kept it to vent.

Day Habit Me Journal My Own Write

People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had.

Knowledge Childhood People Me Early

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