V. S. Naipaul Quotes
Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
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I use more makeup now then I did before. I didn't use to wear really that much, and I didn't know how to do makeup, but now I know how to do it a bit more. I can do eyes and makeup in general more. I do like my own lipstick as well.
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I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.
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It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
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L.A. is such a car-driven city, and it's great to see so many people - I think people are hungry to get on their bikes and get out of their cars and get off of oil and save money and save the environment.
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I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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Life is a helluva thing. You can see trouble coming and you can't do a damn thing to prevent it coming. You just got to sit and watch and wait.