Jacqueline Winspear Quotes
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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Many of us will be obsessed with one or another kind of secret or revelation, be it gossip about friends or ourselves, a fantasy about spies, or a worry about the most personal information now stored in data banks. But few of us think about secrets in general, or about the moral rights and wrongs of hiding or exposing them.
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It turns out that globalisation, while promising sameness through brand-name consumption, was fostering, through uneven economic growth, an intense feeling of difference.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.
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I don't intend to die.
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A lot of my emotional issues come from dealing with the opposite sex. I've come to terms with the fact that I'll be retired before I can finally enter into a healthy relationship.
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Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.
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My mother lived till she was 95 and never had a line on her face or a frown line. She was beautiful.
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But I just loved looking at the clothes of the '70s.
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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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The ordinary surroundings of life which are esteemed by men (as their actions testify) to be the highest good, may be classed under the three heads - Riches, Fame, and the Pleasures of Sense: with these three the mind is so absorbed that it has little power to reflect on any different good.
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When I first appeared in the media, it was rare to see trans people on TV, and young trans kids were unheard of.
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I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.
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There is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
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Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.
