Janet Street-Porter Quotes
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We have to stand up for what we believe in, even when we might not be popular for it. Honesty starts with being ourselves, authentic and true to who we are and what we believe in, and that may not always be popular, but it will always let you follow your dreams and your heart.
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One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.
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For me, clothing is nothing without the story behind it. Everything I own evokes some kind of memory.
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I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.
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I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.
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I believe I was ahead of my time.
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Now, I'll tell you something that might interest you. Casino Royale was the first Bond book that Ian Fleming ever wrote. And he couldn't get anybody to touch it, to publish it - he couldn't do anything about it at all. Nobody wanted to know.
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I think that every project offers an opportunity to reinvent process as well as content.
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I grew up riding when I was younger in Texas. I actually learned how to ride in Norway. I really love riding horses.
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I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes, but that's really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique.
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I trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.
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It wasn't about Larry Holmes, if I would have fought a brother I wouldn't have gotten the money I got. Give me 10 black guys and I make eight dollars. Give me Gerry Cooney and I make $10 million.
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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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As for me, I am a watercolor.I wash off.
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Although I always loved reading and putting words on paper, I never thought about becoming a writer until I was twelve.
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When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
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People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities.
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It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.
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Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.
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I am happy because I am no longer an author.
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Blogs are for anoraks who couldn't get published any other way.
