Gail Honeyman Quotes
It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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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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My hope that Thatcher would inadvertently bring about a new political revolution was well and truly bogus. All that sprang out of Thatcherism were extreme financialisation, the triumph of the shopping mall over the corner store, the fetishisation of housing and Tony Blair.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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Multinationals are more sensitive to public pressure because they have bigger brand names, and they have made commitments to be environmentally sensitive. Chinese firms are not used to this kind of pressure yet.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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Gregory Hines was the most talented man I've ever met or seen. Gregory Hines is one of those people that whenever he talked to you, you felt like you were the center of the universe.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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I spend a lot of time on my music.
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I think what really people want is just a few things done really, really well. And if you think about ever day of your life, the things you really appreciate aren't the complicated things. They're the simple things that work just the way you expect them to.
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My parents tolerated me reading comics because they knew I was also reading 'proper' books, too.
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I love seeing women looking great in my clothes. I don't care who they are. I don't quantify people by celebrity.
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I take really good care of myself. I work out a lot and I eat very well.
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Social media companies are a gold rush today, and time will tell if they survive. I have no use for them and can't see why people waste time on them. I much prefer physical meeting with true friends, so have never used the service.
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It's helpful to get feedback on your work, and I think you learn a lot from reading other people's work and giving them feedback.
