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I'm very interested in tea. I wouldn't mind being involved in some aspect of the tea industry.

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Alexander McCall Smith
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 24
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Alexander Sandy McCall Smith
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Every novel presents a slice of life. A noir policier for example presents one slice, one that perhaps addresses social dysfunction or some sort of pathology, while mine present a slice that is more upbeat and affirmative.
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Most people want nothing to happen. That is the problem with governments these days. They want to do things all the time they are always very busy thinking of what things they can do next. That is not what people want. People want to be left alone to look after their cattle.
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As a writer, I have readers who will have a range of political views. I don't think they look to me for political guidance.
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There is room in history for all of us.
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It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
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The good were worthy of note because they battled and that battle was a great story, whereas the evil were evil because of moral laziness, or weakness, and that was ultimately a dull and uninteresting affair.
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International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
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It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.
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The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved that is such a miracle, they feel such a miracle.
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[Edinburgh] is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful it breaks the heart again and again.
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The Okavango Delta is an astonishing sight: the great Okavango River, rather than flow towards the sea, flows inland, into the sands of the Kalahari.
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Dating is really all about sex. In the conventional context, this means that the man invites the woman to go through a social encounter, the ultimate purpose of which is sexual engagement.
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Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
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Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.
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I'm interested in character and dialogue and exchange of ideas.
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