Jemima Khan Quotes
I couldn't define my style; that's impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like something, I'll wear it for years.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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In this business, you get an opportunity, and you pounce on it.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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The guitar for me is a translation device. It's not a goal. And in some ways, jazz isn't a destination for me. For me, jazz is a vehicle that takes you to the true destination - a musical one that describes all kinds of stuff about the human condition and the way music works.
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No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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I had a guidance counsellor who made me take an aptitude test, and told me I should be a bricklayer.
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I've never played a character that would sing.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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It's not enough for just us to invest in Utah; more and more, we are encouraging businesses around the world to follow suit. We want them to invest in and become part of Utah's future and to allow Utah to invest and become part of theirs.
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Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
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My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle of approach and actually blocks of text. It was very - actually, it was a very good study, and got me a job in an ad agency. And they also decided that I had to - to give me a very ugly Plexiglas trophy for it.
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Nobody is original anymore. Nobody has any original style.
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I love to dress myself. I have a unique style, but I don't try to do that – I just put on whatever I feel good in that day.
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I couldn't define my style; that's impossible. I like comfort and elegance with a bit of glamour thrown in. If I like something, I'll wear it for years.
