Nellie Melba Quotes
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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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You have to understand your own personal DNA. Don't do things because I do them or Steve Jobs or Mark Cuban tried it. You need to know your personal brand and stay true to it.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I like to play the weirdos. I like to play the people that are hard to like. You get to say and do things that you would never say and do in real life.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.
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Picasso, Michelangelo, possibly, might be verging on genius, but I don't think a painter like Rembrandt is a genius.
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In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.
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The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.
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I always liked red. It's a picker-upper.
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My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude.
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When I was about 16, I got my ball taken off me by the police for playing in the street - which is pathetic really.
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I think a lot of journal articles should really be blogs.
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I used to give up writing like some people would give up smoking.
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All I know is that I'm tired of being clever Everybody's clever these days Take a win Take a fall I never wanted your love But I needed it all…
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Cities have a social utility, if only as places to get away from.
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When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew.
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If it looks good, you'll see it. If it sounds good, you'll hear it. If its marketed right, you'll buy it. But... If its real... you'll feel it.
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The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
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I think she is confused by the way I want her, which is like nobody else. I know this deep down. I want her in a new way, a way she's never been told about.
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One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.
