Jasmine Lucilla Elizabeth Jennifer van den Bogaerde (Birdy) Quotes
I've started to get used to traveling a lot and performing, but still everything has grown so quickly and is very exciting!
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I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.
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I don't like controversy.
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I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
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The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'
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Over a hundred million Americans reject the findings of the Warren Commission, whose report at least ninety-nine out of a hundred have never read.
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The more sympathy you give, the less you need.
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I grew up watching a lot of French cinema.
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
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They tell me: 'OK, this is where we're going to push up your cleavage,' and I'm like, 'What cleavage?'
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I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
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Bad things happen when people work together. Everything goes out of control.
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I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.
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The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
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I think President Obama is not progressive. And I know a lot of people hate to hear that; it breaks their heart. But that's the reality. It's not in his nature. His nature is pro-establishment. If he had a wrestling nickname, it would be The Establishment.
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If you're a kid, it's all you think about if you stutter. Kids can be so mean. My grades suffered. Class participation weighs heavy in grading, and I wouldn't open my mouth to read or talk in front of anyone.
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Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.
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I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.
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I'd rather be by myself than be spending any time or energy on somebody that I didn't feel sure about.
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I've started to get used to traveling a lot and performing, but still everything has grown so quickly and is very exciting!
