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new-york track agents
My agent is based in New York. And due to a historic accident, my publishing track is primarily American - I'm sold into the UK almost as a foreign import! So I'm quite out of touch with what's going on in UK publishing. Charles Stross
new-york cities like-you
Being on the stage in New York is always exciting because you feel like you're part of the life of the city. Alan Rickman
new-york theater
I love working in New York theater.
new-york years dancing
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
new-york eight rocks
The first time that I came to New York to work properly was the mid-'80s, but I was doing eight shows a week. You have no life. Going to a punk rock club - or whatever the music was at that time - would not have been on my agenda.
new-york food cities
New York waiters, probably the surliest in the Western world . . . are better images of their city than that journalistic favorite the taxi driver. Alan Brien
new-york singing detectives
I saw part of The Singing Detective on TV in New York. I said, Something is going on here. Alain Resnais
new-york cities police
Crime is going down everywhere but in the New York City Police Department. Al Sharpton
new-york want mets
I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York. Al Leiter
self-confidence olympics needs
Because Great Britain has self-confidence, it doesn't need a monumental Olympics. Ai Weiwei
self-confidence tvs internet
TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet. David Walliams
self-confidence climbing special
The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself. Bear Grylls
self-confidence tire knows
I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring. Audrey Hepburn
self-confidence self born
No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience. Denis Waitley
self-confidence world conquer
The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour. Charles Dickens
self-confidence frustration practice
The single largest frustration in the massage field is the waste of resources and training resulting from high attrition among those who start practicing massage therapy. While some affected individuals may have made an ill-suited vocational choice and others underestimated the profession's physical demands, most appear to stumble in assembling the self-confidence and persistent salesmanship necessary to develop a professional practice Bob Benson
self-confidence people arrogance
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus. Edna Ferber
self-confidence people empowering
The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves. Aung San Suu Kyi
cities mind vision
That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.
cities mind moral
I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals. Charles Caleb Colton
cities literature village
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
cities discipline suffering
The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, or individuals - suffer devastating consequences. Charles Stanley
cities dying wipe
This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips? Alan Moore
cities london england
London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.
cities doldrums has-beens
Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again. Alan Hansen
cities space
Eventually there are going to be cities in space. Alan Bean
cities perception facts
In fact, even the perception of a resurgence in crime can be enough to paralyze business momentum and destroy the sense of security that a vibrant and progressive city requires. Alan Autry