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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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
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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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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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Notice that much of what men do is also done by single mothers so appreciating what men do also helps us appreciate what single moms do.
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I go to bars and restaurants, and I sit and I eavesdrop on people and I watch people in shopping centers and, you know, I read the newspapers and I talk to the Trenton cops, and I just get a lot of information that comes in that somehow turns into a book.
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I approach directing from an actor's standpoint.
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Scripts are very different to books. They are blueprints for building, not the building.
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There are lots of things I won't eat but would like to, such as croissants or ice cream - if I started, I'd scoff the whole tub.
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Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement.
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If we don't enforce visa laws, we basically have open borders.
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Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
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Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible.
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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.
