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Malcolm Gladwell Quotes

I grew up in southwestern Ontario in the heart of a Mennonite community. All my family are part of the Mennonite church.

Malcolm Gladwell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: canadian
Birth: September 3, 1963

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Family Community Heart Church Up

The best music of my life I heard at my grandmother's church, this little wooden church up on a hill.

Life Music Best Church My Life Hill

That was after Napoleon died because there is still a controversy as to whether Napoleon was poisoned with arsenic. And the French say the British did it and the British say the French did it, but he died before the test for arsenic was available.

Say Test British Controversy Because

I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables.

Work Day Lunch Remember Table Three

You never realise how much of your background is sewn into the lining of your clothes.

Clothes You Never Background Your

Be bold - there's enough Neville Chamberlains in the world; be a Winston Churchill, for crying out loud!

World Enough Bold Out Crying Loud

It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it.

Miguel de Cervantes

Discipline Brainy Praise One Thing

I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered where I've been like, 'I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me.' I don't want to do something if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.

Good Job Me Think Better Feel

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

Fear Future Looks Worst Existence

I'm just a huge dork, and I hope I always am.

Hope Always Dork Just Am Huge

Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion!

Men Glitter You Get Anytime

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Work Believe Feel Help Flaws Hard

I remember I was up for the role of Jim in 'Huck Finn,' and because I went to Harvard and Yale, they didn't think I would be able to play a slave. I said, 'Oh, please.' I had to go in there and prove to them that I wasn't too intelligent to play a slave.

Courtney B. Vance

Think Remember Play Go Said Prove

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