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Alexander McCall Smith
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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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I can read more languages than I speak! I speak French and Italian - not very well, alas, but I can get by. I read German and Spanish. I can read Latin (I did a lot of Latin at school.) I'm afraid I do not speak any African languages, although I can understand a little bit of the Zulu-related languages, but only a tiny bit.
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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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I am capable of being idle.
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If you lose sight of the smaller accomplishments , you end up with an imbalance in your life.
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Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.
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Some of my characters are a mixture of various aspects of people I have met. others are pure invention.
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Oh I love gadgets and I pride myself on keeping at the cutting edge of technology.
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Dogs are in on our human silliness lions are not.
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As a writer, you have to realize that people want to like the characters, so you have to be careful to keep them involved.
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Who can't like pigs? They're wonderful creatures! I've always liked pigs.
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I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this.
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We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.
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If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
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Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.
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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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How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.
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