Jameela Jamil Quotes
I was born partially deaf and suffered from labyrinthitis, which affected my balance. I had numerous ear infections and spent my childhood in and out of hospital having operations.
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When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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Jealousy... is a mental cancer.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
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As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
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I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.
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As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.
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Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
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You never want to pull any punches. You want that stuff to be as real and as vicious as possible.
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She was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood: that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
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I can enjoy a vacation as well as the next person, as long as I know it's a vacation and not a premature retirement.
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The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.
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I was born partially deaf and suffered from labyrinthitis, which affected my balance. I had numerous ear infections and spent my childhood in and out of hospital having operations.
