Caprice Bourret Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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So many Indian novels, quite unfairly, do not get the prominence they should because they have been written in a language other than English.
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I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
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I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
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If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is despondent.
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I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
