Dita Von Teese Quotes
When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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I like sitting close to windows.
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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov -
If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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I don't think the Taliban will ever come back to take Afghanistan, no.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.
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The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. Many of those people deserve to be in prison; however, some of them do not.
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When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.
