Estelle Quotes
In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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As we get more transparent with data sets about infrastructure and systems management, I have a feeling we'll see big changes in how we think about complexity and our relationship to our actions.
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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.
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That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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The fundamental problem is not that Trump has access to the nuclear launch codes, but that they exist at all.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.
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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.
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Western record companies haven't always dealt with African musicians in the best way. Giving them a lot of money and telling them they're going to be bigger than Phil Collins is the wrong way to do it!
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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Brussels' stance against Poland is not just... they should give more respect to the Poles.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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Conrad Black is a picture of a man hugely enjoying himself.
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In the past, I used to tell everyone that I have never had a boyfriend, because I was still quite young. However, I cannot say the same thing now.
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I believe God put that desire inside of all of us so that we can evaluate ourselves in the light of His Word in order to become all that He created us to be.
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Bring out the eyes.
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Winning HOYS set me up for the future and prepared me for riding in front of lots of people, but the real highlight was the London 2012 Olympics. Being able to go out in front of thousands of people, on your home ground, representing your country and winning gold medals is something I'll never be able to beat.
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As a producer, you're pretty much creating a body of work that an artist has to stand behind.
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I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.
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Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them.
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In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
