I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it's a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!
I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you. "
In Caribbean there is no middle class: you're either rich or you're poor. And the ladder to success is not really a ladder, it's a chain; once you reach a certain level, you can't go back and you can only keep going forward.
I think there are roles there; we just have to choose them. We have to fight for them.
I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so progressive, beautiful, and imaginative.
I have a hyper personality.
I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.
Listing rights generally involves enumerating things you may do without interference (the right to free speech) or may not be done to you without your permission (illegal search and seizure, loud boy-band music in public places). They are protections, not gifts of material goods. Material goods and services must be taken from others, or provided by their labor, so if you believe you have an absolute right to them, and others don't choose to provide it to you, you then have a 'right' to steal from them. But what about their far more fundamental right not to be robbed?
It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.
To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas
When you get to the point where Baghdad is basically isolated, then what is the situation you have in the country?. . You have a country that Baghdad no longer controls; that whatever's happening inside Baghdad is almost irrelevant compared to what's going on in the rest of the country.