Kristin Bauer van Straten Quotes
People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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It has not been easy to wake up every single day at 6:30 in the morning to then head to the gym and start a full day of work. But you have to have that kind of dedication if you want to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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I don't see myself as some kind of fightin'-the-good-fight guy. But I always feel like if you don't like one kind of music or the other, it's just not for you.
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You find the most important thing that really grabs you, and put it right up top. Don't bury the lead. Put it at the top. Best thing to do. Never go wrong that way. It's an immutable law of journalism. It just always works.
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It's not necessary to blow out your neighbor's light to let your own shine.
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Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.
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People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.
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People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.
