Estelle Quotes
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Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and start to get used to it, I can find some fun in those parts, too. Because playing golf is the easiest thing for me, and that's something I'm so used to; that's why it was always easy.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
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My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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You can never go more than three or four hours without having something to nibble on or eat - you have to graze all day long.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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Every year is beautiful, and I try to appreciate each moment in my career, but 30 was definitely one of my best.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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I had the lunchbox that cleared the cafeteria. I was very unpopular in the early grades. Because I hung out with my grandfather, I started to bring my lunchbox with sardine sandwiches and calamari that I would eat off my fingers like rings. I was also always reeking of garlic.
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The more I see of men the more I like dogs.
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I think about 'Will & Grace,' and I think about 'Modern Family,' and the way that being gay has become sort of middle America... in the way that they show gay people in their specific way.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
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What I learned from Rockefeller that's off-the-hook important is: You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.
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I come from a family of well-endowed booty women.
