Jane Siberry Quotes
Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.
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It is so important that you don't stay with someone just for the children and for the wrong reasons.
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I'd like 'Rookie' to be a helpful resource, but I never want it to be too prescriptive. Hopefully, it also makes the reader feel encouraged to think for herself.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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I can't think of any shows I've watched about teenagers that has the same spirit that 'Skins' has, the same honesty about it.
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I'll be starting two new production houses - Konidela Productions and White Horse Entertainments.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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I am interested in classic building development, such as hotels and residential homes, rather than commercial properties.
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I would read a lot about how to be a dad. I had never changed a diaper before we had Birdie.
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Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
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I think of myself as an enormously lucky person.
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I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.
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When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.
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Sometimes you can make friends, and sometimes you can take friends. Sometimes people want to be friends with you, and you gotta be like, 'Okay, I can deal with this person's personality and be their friend, but not necessarily do I have to change who I am. I'm not gonna change myself to be their friend.'
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I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.
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Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.
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Gale and Shapley assumed that each person has a given ranking among potential mates that determines rather than is determined by the equilibrium sorting.
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In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. … In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this.
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Where's he that died o' yesterday? What better chance hath he To clink the can and toss the pot When this night's junkets be? For the lad that died o' yesterday Is just as dead - ho! ho! - As the whoreson knave men laid away A thousand years ago.
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I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.
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If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I'm not the norm; I'm not deluded.
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Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.
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Now Dave Eggers, if you lived in San Francisco, is not an easy person to be done with. Everyone - and by everyone, I mean every white person with a college education and an interest in books - wants a piece of him. It's not just his amazingly powerful prose; it's also his charitable works.
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Sometimes it does me good to look back at the days when the living wasn't so good. I remember in 1945 the dressing-rooms were gone, the park was in ruins, no stand, nothing.
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Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.
