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Women to whom one has just been introduced think that it breaks the ice if they scream, 'Goodness, you're tall!' How would they like it if I broke the ice first, by screaming 'Goodness, what thick ankles!' or 'Goodness, what a bust!
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A Heart So White is simply one of the best novels I know. I'm also thrilled by Javier MarÃas sentences, by how elegant they are while also being so permissive in relation to the niceties of grammar and so open to the prospect of surprise. He's a genius.
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We do have an obligation to deter conflict and to prepare for it should it occur.
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The eye of the heart, though closed in fallen man, is able to take in a glimmering of light and this is faith. But anyway of living causes a covering like rust to accumulate over the heart so that it cannot sense the Divine origin of Allah's message.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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In Israel, it always meant - and a lot of that is still true - there was only one kind of man you could be, there were no alternatives, no options. If you were from a good family, you were supposed to be a successful soldier at 18 and be strong, and prepared to protect your wife and family, or family and children, and be prepared to die for your country.
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I love to be in the position of not knowing what I'm gonna do, but having rehearsed all of those so when something happens with the others actors I go with whatever that is I'm getting.
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Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.
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people always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions ...
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I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.
