Bozoma Saint John Quotes
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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There should be no censorship of mail.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
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Sculpture is the art of the intelligence.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem - the most oriental thing imaginable.
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It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.
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But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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'In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far.
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We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.
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The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.
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Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
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Most of my best friends ended up being women, most notably my wife, and I learn a lot by simply listening.
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I like drawing people in the airport or on the bus or in venues. I like catching people in the moment. It's a similar inspiration for me in terms of songwriting.
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I want to live outside of the box, and I definitely don't want to put God in a box, so I want to be able to dream big and kind of let that go of my small-mindedness.
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I'm following the path that was destined for me.
