Yolandi Visser Quotes
It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
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It's just amazing that there are so many prejudices even now.
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Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down that my child as asthma. Please lie and say it's bronchitis, because if you write down asthma, when my child turns 18 or 20 and has to get his or her own insurance, it will be a pre-existing condition.'
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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My background is that of a competitive athlete and a fighter, and I'm bringing something totally different to 'The Biggest Loser' that wasn't there before.
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Art is the job of the privileged.
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I'm the type of girl who's always had to buy jeans in three sizes because I never know what my body is going to do from one day to the next.
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I hope I'm wrong, but I am afraid that Iraq is going to turn out to be the greatest disaster in American foreign policy - worse than Vietnam, not in the number who died, but in terms of its unintended consequences and its reverberation throughout the region.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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I don't crave Hollywood.
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I just work out hard enough that, if I'm craving something, I eat it and know I'm going to burn it off the next day with extra intensity.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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I think that Frank Sinatra was maybe the greatest pop singer.
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Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
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People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.
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If somebody's gonna stab me in the back, I wanna be there.
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It was hard to write or compose... we just had to go back and finish making songs. If we make 20 songs, we'll throw away 10.
