Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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We are skinny; this is our work. There are lots of overweight people working in offices, but I'm not going to say, 'This girl is fat; she can't work in an office.'
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
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I am glad. I am now an Olympic medallist.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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The rich man's dog gets more in the way of vaccination, medicine and medical care than do the workers upon whom the rich man's wealth is built.
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1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing as mere fragmentary footage and stills, but cinemaphile fossil-hunters have painstakingly excavated bits and pieces from obscure archives and assembled them into a nearly-complete animal.
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No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you.
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My iPhone stays on. All my friends and family know that I hate the phone, so no one calls me on it. I just use it to play Words With Friends and take pictures of cute shoes.
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I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But I get nervous and turn into my grandma. Behind the eyes it's pure fear. I find it difficult to believe I'm going to be able to deliver.
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.
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Who has words at the right moment?
