Ella Maillart Quotes
One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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There's a lot of activism that doesn't deal with empowerment, and you have to empower yourself in order to be relevant to any type of struggle.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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When you cross over on fandoms, people don't know what to do with themselves.
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
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My favorite game shows were 'Password' and '$25,000 Pyramid.'
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.
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Yale was one of the best moments in my life - also one of the hardest. I learned about community.
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All excess is ill; but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous, and mad.
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I had no choice but to work hard. I was a straight-A student, went to college, and I loved business. I never thought I was going to be a singer myself.
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One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
