Nathalie Sarraute Quotes
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I mask every single day. I mask every morning - since I was 27 years old. I don't care the brand: it can be from the drugstore or high end. I can be walking my dog in the mask scaring children and people off, but it's my routine that I commit to every single day.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
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I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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The artist's business requires his involvement in practically everything. He works in reference, not to a section of the world, but to the whole world.
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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
