Estelle Quotes
I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.
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I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.
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I had a really good feeling about that match. You know, they are good friends, and Chris had to feel really relaxed because of being out there with Tiger.
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Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
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There's no love like a lost love and no pain like a broken heart.
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I enjoy photographing. It's always interesting, so I can't say one thing is more fun than another. Everything has it's own difficulties.
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If the brutal facts are not faced by leaders, the brutal reality sets in.
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The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people.
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Blackberry Smoke is a band that will never go hungry.
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You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
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We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.
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Divorce is hard and painful and complicated, and something you have to grow through.
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An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page.
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I've been to the top and I've been to the bottom more times than most people ride in an elevator.
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If anything in your life is more important than writing - anything at all - you should walk away now while you still can. Forewarned is forearmed. For those who cannot or will not walk away, you need only to remember this. Writing is life. Breathe deeply of it.
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I mean, there are things in the book you could never do in a movie.
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When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.
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I got to the point where I was fed up with so many people telling me how and who I was supposed to be.
