Josephine de La Baume Quotes
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
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We have the ability to be able, if we have the right resources around us, to really do chop and change and have fun in our time and not just be stuck in one world or the other.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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'Miele' is a code name for a girl who has a double life.
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Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.
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The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.
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No civilization on the brink of collapse has ever changed fast enough to avert collapse.
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You've got to respect people; you've got to understand where they come from. We know where people in Oklahoma come from - that's why we get along.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
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I like to look like a tomboy during the day and then a pin-up girl at night.
