Dodie Smith Quotes
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features.
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What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
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We've only made three investments: Facebook, Groupon, and Zynga.
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I'm not a very typical singer.
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If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'
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If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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I've always been interested in mindfulness and alternative ways of seeing the world.
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Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality.
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Time flies whether you are having fun or not.
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I was always a good student, but I didn't read that much until I was 18 and I was working my way through college.
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Writing a story starts out as a puzzle in your mind, of "What is it I'm fantasizing about right now that makes me think this is going to be worth years of work?" And you just keep pushing and trying to figure it out, and once you've hit on these resonances... Then as a screenwriter, it can be dangerous if you get too hooked on just finding things that resonate with each other, because then you risk getting into stuff that's too neat, and becomes stifled as storytelling. But you do feel like you're on the right track when you start to have a sense of what goes with what.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
