"It's always a mistake for writers to key……" — Richard Curtis
"It's always a mistake for writers to key their submissions to world events, because they move so quickly and unpredictably, as has certainly proven the case in Afghanistan."
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17 Quotes by Richard Curtis
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Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love…
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No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it…
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You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought…
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Look at the sky. It’s not dark and black and without character. The black is, in fact deep blue. And…
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I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel…
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I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand…
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Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken…
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I tend to turn down books originally published as e-books. As for selling books directly to e-book publishers, I would…
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You have to remember that in addition to running a literary agency, I am also an ebook publisher.
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The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those…
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Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.
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Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.
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More Afghanistan Quotes
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You go to London, you see a TV set in every cell and the sign up that all the officers…
— Joe Arpaio
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Military hardliners called me a 'security threat' for promoting peace in South Asia and for supporting a broad-based government in…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in…
— Joe Biden
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I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is…
— Bill Bryson
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Since the attack on the United States on September 11 2001, and the US retaliation in Afghanistan and Iraq, there…
— James Buchan
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
— Barbara Bush
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The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and…
— George W. Bush
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I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I…
— George W. Bush
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The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of…
— Steve Buyer
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I think we need to just be very clear about what we're trying to do in Afghanistan. Frankly, we're not…
— David Cameron
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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When an army unit returns from service in Iraq or Afghanistan, it barely gets a breather before it begins training…
— Hillary Clinton
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