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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.

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Alexander McCall Smith
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Category: Positive

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age it tends to get categorized and labeled and I think labels are for food. Canned food.
  • 2. Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
  • 3. I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age but I'm trying.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Science fiction is an amazing literature: plot elements that you would think would be completely worn out by now keep changing into surprising new forms.
  • 2. I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.
  • 3. I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.
  • 2. Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust greed and anger.
  • 3. It's a very difficult thing for people to accept seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 2. I've been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.
  • 3. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Poetry is not only dream and vision it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
  • 2. To me a building – if it's beautiful – is the love of one man he's made it out of his love for space materials things like that.
  • 3. A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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