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 have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.
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You and I, we're no good at telling a story straight. It won't come off right. Like a dog reciting a sonnet. Impressive, but how much better to let him howl?
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The thing that I think a director has to have in order to make a movie really work, and to certainly make a film that feels personal, which I hope this one does, is that you have to have a sense of the feeling that you want to create in people, the tone which you want to tell the story, and the basic themes you want to come out. You can't compromise on those because you are then not making the movie that you are going to be good at telling.
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Yeah, you know, I performed occasionally. I was in such despair because I just - if I didn't have my music to connect with, I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing. There was never a 'B' plan here; it was just this. So it took me a long time to find my way.
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When you do what you're supposed to do, each door opens up maybe 10-15 other doors.
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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.
