"If there are people who do it better than you, why do it?"

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Source : "Konnie Huq: If I show my cleavage people make such a fuss". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 30, 2008.

Konnie Huq

#People Quotes #Better Than You Quotes #Ifs Quotes

“I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.”
“I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there.”
“Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?”
“Physically it's exhausting to cook every night. Existentially speaking, I have so much more energy having that time to myself in this project, this gift to myself at the end of the day. Even if it didn't go smoothly, it was still a gift.”
“Wikipedia is first and foremost an effort to create and distribute a free encyclopedia of the highest possible quality to every single person on the planet in their own language. Asking whether the community comes before or after this goal is really asking the wrong question: the entire purpose of the community is precisely this goal.”

Source : "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia". Wikipedia-l mailing list, March 08, 2005.
“I donâ€™t know whatâ€™s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what youâ€™ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
“I love the combination of smartness, pain, and what one might call conscious postmodern trashiness in this book: a version of the erotic full of nervous tension which animates the sensuality, and also Zimroth's feeling for words, compressed, ironic, withholding, but also 'asking for it . . . the siege, the thrill, the battle fatigue.' A profoundly urban book, of harsh memory and fantasy, set in harsher reality.”
“A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if hes any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.”

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