Poppy Delevingne Quotes
I feel - as I'm edging to my thirties, I feel like a stronger person and a more confident person.
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When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
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As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.
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The realistic value of a work is completely independent of its properties in terms of content.
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I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.
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The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.
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The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
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If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
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It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
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If you never budge, don't expect a push.
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I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
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Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.
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If you rent, that's it. You don't have to pay any interest to anybody. You don't have to pay any maintenance costs to anybody. You don't have to worry about whether the boiler is going to break down. While if you own your own home, you have a hundred aggravations.
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A big part of engaging kids in science is not getting the single, correct answer; it's being willing to work with students to discover the correct answer.
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About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
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But he understood that it is better to live to the very end of his time on Earth with a longing not for the past but for the dreams that have not yet come true - an Israel that is secure in a just and lasting peace with its neighbors.
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But what I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn’t interest you most. I mean you can’t help it sometimes.
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He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.
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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.
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Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits.
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Apparently there are three levels of brain activity. Level 1 is the lowest level - the amount of concentration required to, say, delete emails or serve in congress.
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I feel - as I'm edging to my thirties, I feel like a stronger person and a more confident person.
