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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. The 19th century was the age of Individualism the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.
  • 2. We live in an age of mediocrity.
  • 3. My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's not always thankless. Let's face it – it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.
  • 2. If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines so teaching is really important and very necessary.
  • 3. Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet despite the discomfort the danger I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
  • 2. Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil to make us vehement against him not to set us in array against each other.
  • 3. He took over anger to intimidate subordinates and in time anger took over him.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years… it's unbelievable.
  • 2. We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
  • 3. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
  • 2. Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture or it isn't real.
  • 3. I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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