Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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I like dogs, I just don't choose to spend time with them.
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I get inspired in certain places. You have to write in places like Amsterdam or Paris or New Zealand, when you're standing on a yacht, looking out at the middle of the ocean.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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Yes, I love playing cartoony characters. Been known for that.
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De pareils serviteurs sont les forces des rois,Et de pareils aussi sont au-dessus des lois.
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Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
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Children touch all of our lives. We all have the opportunity to sow seeds into the next generation, and there's nothing more important that we can leave on this earth than a legacy of faith, hope, and confidence in our God.
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Children like their mothers especially to be standing still and watching them, even if they are sleeping. At least that's how I felt. There's nothing wrong with the self-interest of children; it's just the way they are.
