Andrea Hirata quote: "I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most."

I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more...
ANDREA HIRATA

I am a writer who has a policy to allocate 90 percent of my time for research and the remaining 10 p...
ANDREA HIRATA

Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle ...
ANDREA HIRATA

...ilmu demikian luas untuk disombongkan...
ANDREA HIRATA

The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered ...
ANDREA HIRATA

It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I...
ANDREA HIRATA

I think writers of memoirs need to be respected for the bold decision they take to bare their lives ...
ANDREA HIRATA

Jika berfikir positif, ternyata mengenal seseorang secara emosional memberikan akses pada sebuah ban...
ANDREA HIRATA

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.
ANDREA HIRATA

Berhenti bercita-cita adalah tragedi terbesar dalam hidup manusia
ANDREA HIRATA

From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. T...
ANDREA HIRATA

I'm a small-town boy who comes from a traditional family on a tiny island called Belitung. I may...
ANDREA HIRATA

Beri aku sesuatu yang paling sulit, aku akan belajar!
ANDREA HIRATA

Sering aku disiksa oleh pertanyaan: mengapa A Ling bisa begitu? Apa salahku sehingga ia begitu? Apa ...
ANDREA HIRATA

There's actually nothing interesting about me except what I write.
ANDREA BARRETT

A representative is free delivery; she's a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that hig...
ANDREA JUNG

Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this ...
ANDREA CORR

For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner...
ANDREA BOCELLI

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN

A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because w...
ANDREA BOCELLI

I've dreamed of having my French bulldog become a bestselling children's heroine.
ANDREA SEIGEL

I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket sh...
ANDREA MCLEAN

Once respect has been initiated, war is less provocative.
ANDREA SCHOLER

When I sing for myself, I sing in a more free, athletic way. When I face an audience, there is alway...
ANDREA BOCELLI

A doctor once told me I feel too much. I said, so does god. that’s why you can see the grand canyo...
ANDREA GIBSON

My face is almost like a canvas - a blank canvas in the sense that the hair on my face is very, very...
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH

The nutritionist said I should eat root vegetables.
Said if I could get down thirteen turnips a...
ANDREA GIBSON

You want me to lie for you?" Aidan asked, watching them.

"Believe in me, the way ...
ANDREA HAIRSTON

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced ba...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Women are an enslaved population -- the crop we harvest is children, the fields we work are houses. ...
ANDREA DWORKIN

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.
ANDREA NEWMAN

Only when manhood is dead -- and it will perish when ravaged femininity no longer sustains it -- onl...
ANDREA DWORKIN

In this society, the norm of masculinity is phallic aggression. Male sexuality is, by definition, in...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction,...
ANDREA DWORKIN

The argument between wives and whores is an old one; each one thinking that whatever she is, at leas...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Money speaks, but it speaks with a male voice.
ANDREA DWORKIN

It is difficult for intellect, technology, and peace to coexist. Not because peace is static where t...
ANDREA SCHOLER

Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled wit...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it.
ANDREA DWORKIN

The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devo...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Poetry, the genre of purest beauty, was born of a truncated woman: her head severed from her body wi...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in...
ANDREA DWORKIN

For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can w...
ANDREA DWORKIN

The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood;...
ANDREA DWORKIN

A commitment to sexual equality with males is a commitment to becoming the rich instead of the poor,...
ANDREA DWORKIN

By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inh...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Women's fashion is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women.
ANDREA DWORKIN

Seduction is often difficult to distinguish from rape. In seduction, the rapist often bothers to buy...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Women, for centuries not having access to pornography and now unable to bear looking at the muck on ...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Men have defined the parameters of every subject. All feminist arguments, however radical in intent ...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Men are rewarded for learning the practice of violence in virtually any sphere of activity by money,...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; ...
ANDREA DWORKIN

The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstr...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or the woman is ...
ANDREA DWORKIN

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially i...
ANDREA DWORKIN

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a cru...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it.
ANDREA DWORKIN

Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifferenc...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and abuse is ...
ANDREA DWORKIN

No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
ANDREA DWORKIN

I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?
ANDREA CORR

I'm an artist; affirmation is like catnip to me.
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH

My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother w...
ANDREA JUNG

'Passione' is a selection of the music moments that have accompanied my youth; a collection ...
ANDREA BOCELLI

Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top.
ANDREA JUNG

Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an in...
ANDREA BARRETT

I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you reco...
ANDREA ARNOLD

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscur...
ANDREA DWORKIN

It's important for me who is at the table with me; the moment when everyone speaks to each other...
ANDREA BOCELLI

Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny; it is t...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Genocide begins, however improbably, in the conviction that classes of biological distinction indisp...
ANDREA DWORKIN

Eating at home is fine, as I can easily work around the foods that don't agree with me and still...
ANDREA MCLEAN

Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.
ANDREA ARNOLD

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It&#...
ANDREA BOCELLI

People think I'm totally crackers.
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH

I am, as are most writers, just hugely obsessive, and so are many of my closest friends, who tend to...
ANDREA BARRETT

A love song must respect the canons of music beauty, entering the fibers of those who are listening....
ANDREA BOCELLI

There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh...
ANDREA JUNG

Talent is the No. 1 priority for a CEO. You think it's about vision and strategy, but you have t...
ANDREA JUNG

If a parent did not get a first- or second-choice school, their child's name is automatically placed...
ANDREA ZAHN

It's difficult for the schools when parents drop in.
ANDREA ZAHN

If you're ready, make your call as soon as possible.
ANDREA ZAHN

The transportation department is looking for the safest way to deliver the students home. Sometimes ...
ANDREA ZAHN

the primary emphasis is on care and not security.
ANDREA YATES

Sometimes Andrea liked to take the hard road instead of the easy road.
ANDREA YATES

There are two tragedies, ... One is my children and the other is my wife.
ANDREA YATES

One side of me blames her because she did it, but the other side says she didn't because that wasn't...
ANDREA YATES

just killed my children.
ANDREA YATES

If they drop charges against her, then she'd go to a mental hospital and then the doctors would deci...
ANDREA YATES

She loved our kids, ... kind, gentle person.
ANDREA YATES

severe mental illness like psychosis can lead to a tragedy like this -- that people can see things t...
ANDREA YATES

They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their ...
ANDREA YATES

[HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- Standing outside the home where his wife drowned their five children one ye...
ANDREA YATES

There's never been anything to put a dent in it. There continues to be a huge appetite for the show.
ANDREA WONG

It was an easy decision to make. The show continues to grow creatively, and Jimmy is at the top of h...
ANDREA WONG

I've frequently said that fall is a bad time to launch reality programming. The audience has a real ...
ANDREA WONG

What's important is that it's going to bring talent to the marketplace and expose great new creative...
ANDREA WONG

[Andrea Wong, ABC's alternative-programming chief, says there will be nine celebrity competitors.] I...
ANDREA WONG

I have to say, I was surprised at how angry the press were,
ANDREA WONG

We are thrilled to introduce This is Your Life to a whole new generation of ABC viewers, ... was mor...
ANDREA WONG

American audiences, when they sit down to watch TV, like to be taken on a roller coaster ride. They ...
ANDREA WONG

From my perspective, I'll take a great idea from wherever it comes.
ANDREA WONG

We are thrilled to introduce 'This is Your Life' to a whole new generation of ABC viewers, ... was m...
ANDREA WONG

I think they'd get the most value out of a large media company or a big retailer on the e-commerce f...
ANDREA WILLIAMS

For the same reason Excite is successful as a search engine, I think community focus sites are doing...
ANDREA WILLIAMS

It's incrementally positive. ... It's not a negative but does it open up a new opportunity? I'm not ...
ANDREA WILLIAMS

What is exciting, is for the first time we are starting to see leverage in their operating models so...
ANDREA WILLIAMS

When the [profitable] numbers first came out I think we were all scratching our heads, saying, 'no w...
ANDREA WILLIAMS

It was a great quarter for the company. Revenue growth was much stronger than anticipated.
ANDREA WILLIAMS

Netscape will have to spend more and do more to catch up ... But they still have 60 percent of the b...
ANDREA WILLIAMS

It's an odd arrangement of competition and cooperation, ... Because [the joint venture] is Netscape ...
ANDREA WILLIAMS

The last thing the market needs, ... is another 250 public Internet companies. I think this is the b...
ANDREA WILLIAMS

There is some anticipation ahead of Bush's speech as his planned tax cuts should help the U.S. consu...
ANDREA WILLIAMS

One of the things under consideration is the extension of those programs. And the thought is that by...
ANDREA WHITE

She said, 'Should I try to do the splits?' and I said 'Yeah!' and she ripped her pants!
ANDREA WHITE

We did it to make it more convenient for the patient as a one-stop center so they don't have to go t...
ANDREA WHITE

The first breaking point [in this approach] is not adequately defining the buyer's goals for the acq...
ANDREA WHITE

It's the 90/10 rule. You get 90 percent of the work done in 10 percent of the time, and it's that fi...
ANDREA WHITE

Survivorship is a process, and not everyone does it the same way at the same time, ... Different mem...
ANDREA WHITE

Rx Outreach has been a critical tool for our pharmacy assistance programs as we have worked to expan...
ANDREA WHITE

I decided to start painting when I was older just for the love of it. I just sit down in the den whe...
ANDREA WARD

I usually just put hang my paintings in my house or give them to my family. I might sell some after ...
ANDREA WARD

My favorite to make is the oil paintings. The colors blend better, but they take longer to dry and I...
ANDREA WARD

I was a stay at home mom so I could raise my three girls. It can take anywhere from 50-60 hours to d...
ANDREA WARD

We work well together. Each of us can anticipate what the other is going to do.
ANDREA WALKER

We?re taking small steps but we?re creating a strong base to build on,
ANDREA WALKER

When they (the committee) started, I noticed they didn?t have any students on the committee,
ANDREA WALKER

When people come in and take a breath, it is so captivating. It basically tells people to stop and s...
ANDREA WALKER

Imogene and her staff physically make the arrangements and we put the puzzle together.
ANDREA WALKER

You have to know your limits and those of your partners. Otherwise it's impossible to turn such a pr...
ANDREA VOGEL

This star constellation will be our guide and point of reference from the beginning to the end.
ANDREA VOGEL

We can't rely on an emergency rescue service like in Switzerland despite satellite telephone link-up...
ANDREA VOGEL

I'll walk most of the distance, because I'm not fit enough to ride a camel for a long time.
ANDREA VOGEL

We each made two cards for him and let them go on balloons at his stone. He touched everyone's life ...
ANDREA VINYARD

It didn't take much to get attached to him. I can honestly say he's one of the funniest guys I'd eve...
ANDREA VINYARD

He's on the back of a garbage truck with this huge smile on his face. Who would be smiling doing som...
ANDREA VINYARD

We always said he had a big heart.
ANDREA VINYARD

Plus, I've had six surgeries and I have one more to go with my arm. They had to put a plate and scre...
ANDREA VALADEZ

The one chance I got to play them down there we didn't do well at all. But we did play well against ...
ANDREA VALADEZ

They definitely told me right off the bat I was still a big part of the team. They made sure to tell...
ANDREA VALADEZ

I had two surgeries after the season was over. I had a nagging knee injury. I tore the sheath away f...
ANDREA VALADEZ

I'm Andrea Thompson, and unless you've been living in a cave, you probably already know that.
ANDREA THOMPSON

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me.
ANDREA THOMPSON

Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I ...
ANDREA THOMPSON

I think a lot of times when people drunk dial about relationships, they're in a really strange place...
ANDREA THOMPSON

I decided to leave my position as anchor of 'CNN Headline News' after several weeks of careful consi...
ANDREA THOMPSON

personal, psychological development project.
ANDREA THOMPSON

Students are going to want a free ride anyway, ... It's a good way to tell people face to face.
ANDREA THOMPSON

If you're going to paint this homosexual relationship, let's do it with dignity.
ANDREA THOMPSON

We ended up going on our second date, which spiraled into us dating for three years.
ANDREA THOMPSON

We expect to secure the Republican nomination for governor.
ANDREA TANTAROS

The Spitzer ticket misses the point. The way to create jobs and improve the climate for businesses i...
ANDREA TANTAROS

New Yorkers have a clear choice: A candidate for governor who hopes he can do a good job protecting ...
ANDREA TANTAROS

During his five years as an attorney general in Massachusetts, Bill Weld obtained over 100 convictio...
ANDREA TANTAROS

He's saying favorable things. They have a good relationship.
ANDREA TANTAROS

The only poll that matters happens on Nov. 7.
ANDREA TANTAROS

She does not hunt. She's too much of an animal lover. She would never kill an animal.
ANDREA TANTAROS

A lot of eighth-graders would have put it aside.
ANDREA SNYDER

I guess a lot of people compared it to Indiana Jones, where you go out into the jungle. About once a...
ANDREA SNYDER

There was that period of time, everybody had told me about six months, before you really got it. It ...
ANDREA SNYDER

I like working outside. I like being active. I'm not good at sitting at a desk.
ANDREA SNYDER

When I started at Hurricane, there was already a shortstop there. So, I played third.
ANDREA SMITH

We want to look at survivors as organizers and not so much our clients. We've seen many successful p...
ANDREA SMITH

Many of [the Native women victims] stay silent because of cultural barriers, a mistrust of white dom...
ANDREA SMITH

Native women are the most sexually assaulted group in the United States. They are ranked 50 percent ...
ANDREA SMITH

I love it. There is such a big audience, and it is the best performance we will give all year.
ANDREA SMITH

I love it, their practitioners are the best, it's a very well run establishment. Very good customer ...
ANDREA SMITH

We're always cold in the first quarter. (Coach) just said to play smart and don't get our heads down...
ANDREA SMITH

We came in thinking we were going to win. Then they came out and surprised us by making all of those...
ANDREA SMITH

The grounds here are amazing and very well kept. It's phenomenal that all year round it's just very ...
ANDREA SMITH

A lot of people do live in the old ways, and we've got to get them out of that mode. Let's better th...
ANDREA SALINAS

We want to know what they think, we want to know how we can put it together to make everybody happy....
ANDREA SALINAS

When we have the Duval County Fair, they bring a lot of livestock into the city. That falls into a n...
ANDREA SALINAS

San Diego has become a farm, and we can't have that anymore. We want economic development in the cit...
ANDREA SALINAS

The hotel will not be a franchise hotel. At this point, the U of I will be the brand of the hotel.
ANDREA RUEDI

We'd especially like to see students from the hospitality program.
ANDREA RUEDI

We're looking at fresh foods, something that appeals to everyone. People will feel comfortable comin...
ANDREA RUEDI

It means having more upscale appointments. Also, it needs to have a full-service restaurant attached...
ANDREA RUEDI

We have many visitors to Research Park. This provides them with a convenient place to stay.
ANDREA RUEDI

When they were casting, Denis was very specific that he didn't want any actors from L.A. and I was l...
ANDREA ROTH

He's a dream. He's the greatest. We shoot about 14 pages a day, which is maybe seven different scene...
ANDREA ROTH

All the characters are good and bad. None of them are soft and fluffy.
ANDREA ROTH

We got a great response (after the first episode) from firemen and their wives, but since then, cert...
ANDREA ROTH

I kinda realized like ok. I got another chance.
ANDREA PUMPER

I thought she was just gonna bring me home to die. That was my thinking. I don't wanna die here. I w...
ANDREA PUMPER

You feel like the bad feelings inside of you are gone. They go away. You're just on this big high, b...
ANDREA PUMPER

The one time I had a moment of clarity was when my mom told me my soul was dying. I remember just sc...
ANDREA PUMPER

Physical intimacy between two people of the same sex is not condoned in the Scripture.
ANDREA PHILLIPS

The JBU discipline process occurs in response to specific behaviors demonstrated repeatedly over tim...
ANDREA PHILLIPS

We're not saying students can't dress up in women's clothing. But there's a difference between the o...
ANDREA PHILLIPS

We both really wanted to go to London but I also wanted to go to Italy. My husband not being keen on...
ANDREA PHILLIPS

I'm very relieved it didn't go into the mouth of the Mississippi, ... That would have been catastrop...
ANDREA PHILLIPS

A patient must have a terminal diagnosis to be admitted to such a facility.
ANDREA PHILLIPS

One of the tours we had scheduled -- the gaslight tour of Jack the Ripper's haunts, and on Halloween...
ANDREA PHILLIPS

Mannequin Madness did a very good job of convincing our judges not only of the clarity of her busine...
ANDREA PEIRO

Judith and Mannequin Madness exemplify how small businesses are striving to incorporate technology t...
ANDREA PEIRO

The top five World of Difference contest finalists are small businesses that have been able to devel...
ANDREA PEIRO

Small businesses embody the spirit of opportunism, innovation and passion, and these awards reflect ...
ANDREA PEIRO

I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.

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Andrea Hirata

I've backpacked to countries like Italy and Turkey and observed beautiful scenery, but then I realized that beauty was always very close to me. It is here in Belitung Island, where the rivers, beaches and the terrain captivate my attention most.

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