Jasmine Guinness Quotes
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I didn't agree with what Joe McCarthy was trying to do, but I sure did admire his methods.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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What there is no dispute about is whether or not China is a currency manipulator. They are a currency manipulator. They actively intervene every single day to keep the value of their currency less than it would be against the dollar than if it floated freely. We think. Even China barely disputes that.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.
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Kindness and patience were always called for.
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I still can't believe that I went on 'The Colbert Report' myself; for the appearance I wore a lot of makeup, my hair was curled like a poodle's, and I could barely breathe in my Spanx undergarments. But, hey - an authoress has to lean in, right?
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Raised in a house filled with old books, I'm drawn to them: the dust jackets that call out a historical moment, the marbled boards, the words pressed into the page with movable type.
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Alcohol is an allergy of the body and an obsession of the mind.
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I want to do something to help people.
