Estelle Quotes
I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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People are incredible creatures of habit.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
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I'm really enjoying being single. I'm not even looking to meet anybody, which is so freeing.
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I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
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I'm taking a vow not to advise.
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I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.
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Even if it's a white crowd, I tell my jokes for the four black people in the room, not the 100 whites.
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Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
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I gave up the love of learning for the love of oblivion-the two cannot live together.
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Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by ear.
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First we try to preserve ourselves, until we see that we can't. Then we try to preserve our children, until we see we can't. Then we act to preserve our kin, and then our village or tribe, and when we see we can't preserve even them, then we act in order to preserve our memory. And if we can't do that, what is left?
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Where the grifter is shameless, the grafter shrinks from exposure, which could only endanger the racket. He is greedy but not creatively ambitious. He toils in mundane self-dealing, insider trading, bribe taking, witness tampering, and other forms of workaday corruption.
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People often say that if you have to work hard at a marriage, then it's not naturally good, but I think that's totally wrong.
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The letters I get on the Internet and the responses to my books make it very clear that something is trying to happen. And I'm just one person. There are millions of people really ready to go. We're just not sure where to go yet.
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I just have a way about me where people know that they don't tell me what to do, they kind of just wait for me to do it.
