Wilbur Smith Quotes

You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.

Wilbur Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I'd rather get a good clean laugh with good material, than an easy laugh by swearing or shocking. That's not clever or comedic, anybody can get a laugh that way, it's too easy.

Jim Dale

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I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.

Anna Paquin

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I don't make unconventional stories; I don't make non-linear stories. I like linear storytelling a lot.

Steven Spielberg

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Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people.

Tom Felton

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If I spent my career responding to critics, I'd never be where I'm at right now.

Roy Jones Jr.

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What did Sept. 11 do? It took me from 60-70 percent name recognition as mayor of New York to about 90 percent. Of course it had an impact. But it's not the only reason I was successful.

Rudy Giuliani

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You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Julia Roberts

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I work very much on the principle that anything created by mankind has mischief and error hardwired into its inception.

Jasper Fforde

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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Josh Billings

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Being in a relationship grounds you. You feel a sense of home.

Jonathan Knight

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It's fantastic that 'Strictly' is beating 'The X Factor' for many reasons - but one of the main reasons is I think it's a fantastic piece of variety television. It is live, varied TV whereby we are really hanging ourselves out by the seam of our pants.

Colin Salmon

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I guess darkness serves a purpose: to show us that there is redemption through chaos. I believe in that. I think that's the basis of Greek mythology.

Brendan Fraser

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