Barbara Demick Quotes

North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.

Barbara Demick

Recitation: by Male by Female

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WorldInternetCountryOutOnly

I was lucky not to have been born pretty.

Joan Hickson

BornLuckyPrettyBeen

It was great to watch Orson Welles, not only as an actor but as a director.

Max von Sydow

GreatActorDirectorWatchOnly

I'm a tell-it-like-it-is kind of person; I don't like being misled or someone not telling the truth. That upsets me.

John McEnroe

TruthMeSomeonePersonKindBeing

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

Steven Van Zandt

TimingEverythingUpReallyMakes

I'm not a glamorous girl. I don't know how to do my hair. I'm very bad with makeup.

Troian Bellisario

GirlHairMakeupBadKnowGlamorous

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

Rupi Kaur

MomentSchoolWritingRememberWhere

In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.

Janine di Giovanni

JobPeopleBetterAmericaGoKnow

I believe that collaboration is one of the most important things in any field.

Jonathan Anderson

CollaborationBelieveImportantMost

I really love Juicy Couture - it's young and fresh.

Dionne Bromfield

LoveYoungFreshCoutureReally

This is my first visit to Africa, a region where President Bush has voiced a deep passion for fostering and encouraging economic development, investment and trade.

Donald Evans

PassionDeepInvestmentDevelopment

So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.

Clare Short

WarLegalAdvicePublic DomainSaid

When you do a movie as opposed to a TV show, it's always tempting to think everything has to be big and exaggerated and spectacular. And in fact, a lot of the funniest comedy films have been very intimate.

Armando Iannucci

ThinkComedyYouAlwaysEverything

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