Jessica Lynch Quotes
The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own heroes - ideals for heroes - and they don't need to be told elaborate lies.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
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You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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I didn't have traditional stage fright. If there was 500 people in the audience or three people in the audience, it didn't really make a difference. What made a difference was the conductor. Everything that I was scared about as a drummer was him.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I became a dancer late and an actor late.
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Fantasy was something I'd read as a child. And, in fact, my teachers despaired a little bit because I refused to give up Enid Blyton. Then I walked through the wardrobe with C. S. Lewis, and I don't think I actually have returned fully from the wardrobe. So, fantasy was something that was in my life from quite young.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.
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My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Infosys is an absolute meritocracy. Even in a meritocracy, other things being equal, you have to give opportunity to the more experienced candidate.
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There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
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I really would like to start a family as well. Whether I can balance the two or have to decide one or the other way, I'm not sure what will happen.
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I was bitten by a brown recluse spider. It got me as I was coming out of the shower. I'd never seen that kind of spider before, I'm from Canada and we don't get those types up there.
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If I tried to shout over my older brother, my mother told me keep quiet. If I tried to shout over my little sister, my father told me to shut up. I found the best way to be heard was to lower my voice and actually speak when I had something to say.
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The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own heroes - ideals for heroes - and they don't need to be told elaborate lies.
