Emilia Wickstead Quotes

I attended speech and drama classes with a nun to help me gain confidence in speaking without my face turning red each time.

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• I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

  

  Olivia Munn
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• When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.

  

  Camilla Belle
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• Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.

  

  Taylor Negron
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• We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.

  

  Sam Yagan
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• Every child is a thought in the mind of God, and our task is to recognize this thought and help it toward completion.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
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• As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.

  

  Iain Glen
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• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
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• I often wonder whether Negroes like myself who are pretty well known help out at all in breaking down barriers.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• Whatever's going on with me at the time of writing is going to find its way into the piece. If that doesn't happen, then what the hell am I doing? So if I'm writing 'Inglourious Basterds,' and I'm in love with a girl and we break up, that's going to find its way into the piece.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• I don't know when I'm going to have time to be politically active.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain Christian functions. I try to cultivate a generous, kind spirit and am open to anything to help get me there.

  

  Maggie Rowe
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• And so, I will be probably, since I am not involved in all the activity, I will have some spare time to devote to document all this busy part of the flight.

  

  Umberto Guidoni
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• Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

  

  Jackie Collins
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• Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
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• I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.

  

  M. J. Rose
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• Well, we're in show business, and I have been making a living in this business a long time and inevitably it means taking what it is that you've done and hopefully you're showing it to a lot of people who like it.

  

  Walter Hill
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• I think when I got drawn to film, I didn't know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.

  

  Allison Anders
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• I think artists are always investigating how to have an economic, political platform. At one time, artists were supported by the Church. Then they were supported also by the state.

  

  Jeff Koons
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• I rarely buy a shoe that is completely specific to a time and outfit. I generally tend to spend money on good shoes that can go with everything.

  

  Melanie Fiona Hallim
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• The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall, nations perish, civilizations grow old and die out, and after an era new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on, still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts of the heart of men centuries dead.

  

  Clarence Day
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• I attended speech and drama classes with a nun to help me gain confidence in speaking without my face turning red each time.

  

  Emilia Wickstead
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