Janine di Giovanni Quotes
I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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I walk around - people know who I am. I've got friends. I can make ends meet. I grew up around people who have been hustling from the start, so I think I've got a bright little future ahead of me - especially if I don't fight. Why would I want to go out there and fight with somebody, get my face punched and kicked. It's not my idea of a good time.
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You can't change the market; the market just is.
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My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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Every time you get something, give something away.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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I like to mix pieces in my art direction from the '60s or the '40s and the '90s and present-day stuff. To me, that feels very real. When I go into people's houses, it's not all today.
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I think young adults get a bad rap for being self-absorbed and self-centered. My experience going around the United States and speaking in schools is that teenagers here are very interested in the fate of their peers around the world.
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Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
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In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.
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I've always looked the same, and every 10 years, I'm a little bit in fashion.
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If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent.
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That's why I believe in Christianity because the Scriptures said: "The things that have been done in the dark will be known on the house tops."
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Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.
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I think you can't dip your toe in and dip your toe out. I think either you're in it or you're not.
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I credit my singing to my mom because she didn't give me a binky when I was a baby. I cried and screamed for the first six months - my mom would say four years of my life - and I developed wonderful lungs.
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I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.
