Dawn Angeliqué Richard (Dawn Richard) Quotes
I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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People who are prone to anxiety are nearly always people-pleasers who fear conflict and negative feelings like anger. When you feel upset, you sweep your problems under the rug because you don't want to upset anyone. You do this so quickly and automatically that you're not even aware you're doing it.
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It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.
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The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
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You can never have too many friends.
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That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.
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I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.
