Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde (Birdy) Quotes
My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.
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I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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So there clearly is a sense in which the Labour Party here, certainly at State level is reaching out and connecting with people and reflecting the aspirations and needs of, you know the mass of ordinary Australians.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing courses - God love them - because I can't understand how you can explain a process that I find so baffling.
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
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Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!
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I always used to deny this, but I guess what I'm really saying is that I was writing to shock... And I dug deep and dredged up all kinds of vile things which fascinated me at the time.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
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Women make us poets, children make us philosophers.
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People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.
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I got the famous Oprah hug!
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Well, I was lucky in that my being an actress totally overshadowed my having some kind of a... legacy at Yale, so that was kind of great.
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Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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My songs tend to be about love. It drives some of the greatest songs. I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of my writing.
