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 was never that kid that wanted to be in politics. What happened was, I graduated with a degree in accounting. I came back home to the family business. I saw how hard it was to make a dollar, and how easy it was for the government to take it. And my mom said, "Quit complaining about it. Do something about it."
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You have nothing to prove. Be the spiritual you and create like a physical fiend.
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My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.
Etel Adnan -
It’s a little bit like what’s happening now — some innocent people can get caught up in this stuff; it’s very tricky. It was so not true. It was my dresser, and I don’t care if she’s listening — I probably shouldn’t be telling this, but I don’t care because it was so long ago and it’s gotta be over now. i just thought this was a joke. You know, they bought her off, which really made me mad.
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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.
