Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde (Birdy) Quotes
I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot.
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Events tend to recur in cycles.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.
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I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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That's the miracle of fiction. I use it to spray on certain moments or places from my youth.
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I knew I really made it when my dad saw me in London and after the performance he had no notes to me and just said 'You are doing your own thing and I am proud of you.'
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There's a long goodbye,and it happens every day,when a passerbyinvites your eyeto come away.Even as you smile a quick helloyou let her go,you let the moment fly...Too late you turn your head,you know you've saidthe Long Goodbye.
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In my latter years I've decided that there's too much to keep track of when you go into the lying game. That becomes stressful and it's not for me anymore.
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You need to turn over every rock and open every door to learn your industry. This process never ends.
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I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'
