"Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology."
-Alexander McCall Smith
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"I've also long since realized that the way to really engage children is to give out prizes it's amazing how it concentrates their minds.“
-Alexander McCall Smith
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"I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side."
-Alexander McCall Smith
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"My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world."
-Alexander McCall Smith
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"It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society."
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"Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society."
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"One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together - which can lead to nightmares of social collapse."
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"It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it."
-Paul McEuen
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"I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me."
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"The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible."
-Jane Krakowski
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"Obviously, there's the seedy side of the strip club world and pole dancing. But, pole dancing, as an art form, is really beautiful. It's been hyper-sexualized because it's associated with strippers, but if you think about it, just in terms of other kinds of dancing, they're using an instrument to create these amazing dance forms."
-Megalyn Echikunwoke
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"I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress."
-Angela Sarafyan
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"It's amazing... to enjoy the results of your labor."
-Michael Rady
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