Essence Atkins Quotes
After 35, I felt like I'd been in these relationships; some were great, some weren't so great, but they weren't right partnerships.
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For the past few centuries, we have defined beauty as tall, slender figures, femininity and white skin.
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I'm not a great fan of monarchy in general, but I have to say the Danish monarchy is closer to the people; it's not as stuffy as the English one.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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Real obsession needs an unconscious motivation behind it.
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A will finds a way.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.
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I'll post a video, and it might get 10,000 comments, and I'll scroll through and they'll all be lovely and nice - but then they'll be one saying, 'I hate you; I'm unsubscribing' and that's the one that sticks out and stays on your mind all day.
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You've got to bring yourself to any character you do.
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If you are a woman, you might feel torn between logical agreement and emotional resistance. Why? It seems like a simpler solution to blame men for the pay gap than to engineer your own bridge to higher pay.
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The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.
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Actually I ran away from school when I was 13. No one could find me, and the police were called. I was just hiding in a little thicket of grass at my school, and went to sleep.
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Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
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People like to examine the things that frighten them, to look at them and give them names, so saints look for god, and scientists look for evidence. They're both just trying to take away from the mystery, to take away from the fear.
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Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.
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That which you seek, is causing you to seek.
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The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds.
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After I left D.C. to join Black Flag, I felt I was in a band.
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Meet the big while it is small.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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After 35, I felt like I'd been in these relationships; some were great, some weren't so great, but they weren't right partnerships.
