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“It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.”
Source : "Michelle, top woman in a macho world" by Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2006.
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“Make your novel readable. Make it easy to read, pleasant to read. This doesn't mean flowery passages, ambitious flights of pyrotechnic verbiage; it means strong, simple, natural sentences.”
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“Thats the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.”
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“I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.”
Source : "Report: Robin Gibb was making 'bucket list' before falling into coma" by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, www.today.com. October 14, 2016.
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“Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.”
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“I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.”
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“Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat mean-spirited calculation: you would do better if you slipped on a paving-stone and broke a front tooth.”
Source : "Dear Austen". Book by Nina Bawden, 2005.
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“I have so many themes I want to explore, so many questions I'd like to raise and develop, and hopefully, I'll get to do just that.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.