Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde (Birdy) Quotes
I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was so cool. It was the night before I was going on her show to sing on the 'Live Lounge.' She was so lovely.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Kim Jong-un's style is more suggestive of Saddam Hussein or his murderous son, Uday Hussein.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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A girl's best friend is her pride.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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I want my legacy to be about the soccer, and if I can help people be happier in life in any capacity, awesome.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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Strong families are vital to strong societies.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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We signed to play until the day we died, and we did.
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In N.Y.C., I auditioned for mostly 'quirky friend' roles. Since casting directors in L.A. lacked a preconceived notion of me, I was able to reinvent my type a bit, which was essential in booking the role of Amanda on 'Ugly Betty.' I don't believe I would have auditioned for that role in N.Y.
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Including myself, the majority of the Korean people believe in this staunch alliance between Korea and the United States and all of us hope that our traditional alliance will be further strengthened in the future.
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By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.
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Be the best you can be, but acknowledge that you will make mistakes, and then know which errors to let go of. There will be typos in e-mails, meetings you are late for, daily to-do lists that don't get completed. Cut yourself some slack and, more important, reward yourself along the way.
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I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was so cool. It was the night before I was going on her show to sing on the 'Live Lounge.' She was so lovely.
