Pete Burns Quotes
You'd never catch me dead in a pair of fishnets! For one thing, they are not practical. And for another thing, it's just like a tacky drag queen.
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I try to get going early, on the assumption that the way you begin your day is the way you continue. But certain books only want to be written at night, so there's no hard rule where work is concerned.
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While I try to keep my fitness regimen consistent, during awards season, I'm especially conscious of what I'll be wearing and plan my workouts accordingly.
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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Fashion is that thing that saved me from being sad.
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In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life.
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I wanted to write a story about colonization and about Hawaii. I went to college right at the height of identity politics, and that's how I always read 'The Tempest,' for example.
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In education, technology can be a life-changer, a game changer, for kids who are both in school and out of school. Technology can bring textbooks to life. The Internet can connect students to their peers in other parts of the world. It can bridge the quality gaps.
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Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.
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In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
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They will always assume that this guy - an upcoming actor, what if he becomes a star tomorrow? He would not work with me then... so I might as well choose to be nice. But women are not treated with the same attitude. Women they treat really badly.
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It doesn't make your life stop being fun to be a Christian.
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Compromise in colors is grey.
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I think the whole nerves thing comes into play when we worry about what other people and society will think.
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As a black and as a woman, I didn't think that I would really want to live in any of the eras before this, because I would inevitably be worse off. I would have spent more time struggling just to prove I was human than doing my work.
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I didn't start traveling abroad until I was 17, but I spent many summers on the beaches of Donegal in Ireland.
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I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary novelists engage with science.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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I'm a very ambitious girl. I'll go wherever there is a good part.
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To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.
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I'm never going to be cast as a 'Bond' girl. I mean, I could do it and I would love it. But I don't ooze sexuality.
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You'd never catch me dead in a pair of fishnets! For one thing, they are not practical. And for another thing, it's just like a tacky drag queen.
