Estelle Quotes
I can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: 'Sorry, did I wake you?' and I'm like: 'No, I'm wide awake.'
Quotes to Explore
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The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.
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The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.
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Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
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We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.
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It isn't worth it. No money is worth this... walks out.
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History, geography and future bind us. Let no one separate us. Together, we can create pillars of mutual respect that will support the common good for generations to come.
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By study comes communion with the Lord in the Form most admired.
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If a nation cannot face its past, it has no future.
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Italy: '...they are indeed a repulsive nation these dagoes, both the men and the women & I'm just longing to quit them for good & all !!!' (18 September 1918)
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In L.A., I played with Joe Pass and Gabor Szabo. Mick Goodrick plays guitar in the Liberation Music Orchestra, and he's a real special player. Then I did a duet concert with Jim Hall at the 1990 Montreal Festival.
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I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.
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A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.
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When I'm writing, quite often I start having a good time when I see there's a chance to make myself look like a real jerk. I start chuckling and having an interesting, rather than a boring, time.
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I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture.
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Selling out isn't selling out anymore. It's getting the brass ring.
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There's nothing that can replace learning on the field.
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There couldn't have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It's beyond baseball. It's rooting for your family.
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One of the things that got me interested in genetics was the relationship between genes and environment. We are all dealt a certain deck of cards, but our environment can influence the outcomes.
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I think it is important to speak out.
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I can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: 'Sorry, did I wake you?' and I'm like: 'No, I'm wide awake.'
