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I get interviewed a lot, and I found myself listening to what the interviewer is asking me, I'm analyzing what I'm being asked more than my response.

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Alex Haley
Age: 70 †
Born: 1921
Born: August 11
Died: 1992
Died: February 10
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Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
Alexander M. P. Haley
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You're always being judged. No matter what you do, it's not the right thing. If you didn't become successful, then you'd be pointed at as one of those creatures down their who didn't take advantage of this or that, who didn't climb and rise and so forth.
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The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
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You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.
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Most of us prefer to be as quiet as possible about giving, because every time it's publicized that we do something, if it's something of the nature of giving, we'll be doubly besieged, and you really get sick of being always criticized no matter what you do.
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Your attitude is everything. Believe in yourself and trust your material. To be a successful writer, write every single day where you feel like it or not. Never, never give up, and the world will reward you beyond your wildest dreams.
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The way to succeed is never quit. Thats it. But really be humble about it.
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I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.
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When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
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I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.
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I tell younger writers that indeed it is devastating to be rejected. You feel like the bottom dropped out of your world.
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I am really quite proud of most of the people I know who have made it, who do things to help people.
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History is written by winners.
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Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.
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Indeed optimists rather than defeatists have produced the results for which serious genealogical research is best known.
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You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.
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Racism and hatred are synonymous.
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It's an hour during the week where you can just slow down.
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Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
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When you clench your fist, no one can put anything in your hand.
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Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
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