Maud Adams Quotes
Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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In all honesty, titles are an embarrassment to me.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.
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I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.
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I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.
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Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
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A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
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Although I don't live there anymore, Scotland is a great place for the people coming over to visit and to tour around the Highlands, because it is a very magical place.
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While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.
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There was a time I wouldn't fly to California if I had to spend the night. Can you believe it? I would not fly to California, the phrase was, 'if the sun has to set on me.' I just had prejudices against it.
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Modeling is a great beginning, but it's also a kind of trap if you have any ambition or a mind that needs to be stimulated.
