Jonathan Stroud Quotes
When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation. I'm an escapist kind of writer.
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I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.
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To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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Women are what completely inspire me, and they have also been my downfall.
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I'm happy I have fans; obviously, they're such great people. When I'm on Twitter and Facebook, they say such nice things that I really appreciate.
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Work always comes first as an actor.
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I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.
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Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'
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Everything I ask is a question from Tamron, like it or not. My team does not write my questions. We put together a segment. We talk about the elements that I want, but we have a conversation for that hour with our guests.
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New Orleans will always be in my heart. New Orleans raised me - it's in my blood.
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The only class that I was having a hard time with was my art elective. I couldn’t draw worth a damn. I was pretty good at trees. I sucked at drawing faces. But in art class, all you had to do was try. I was getting an A for work. But not for talent. The story of my life.
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Gaining people's trust might be harder than gaining all creation. But, what is harder than gaining people's trust is having to abandon them.
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When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.
