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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There has to be a continuation of the communal experience of filmgoing.
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My field is called planetary science.
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We can make sacrifices to fight Islamic State, but the international coalition has to support us.
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The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there were certain faces that he made. There was a certain way he stood, a certain kind of body language that he had.
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Pearl Jam is a band I have a lot of respect for. Nirvana and Sonic Youth I feel the same way about. Mumford & Sons, My Morning Jacket, Wilco, Givers, and Foo Fighters are just some of my favorites. I respect bands that give me something of themselves that I can feel. ("Posing" bands turn me off generally speaking.) It all has to do with a feeling I have about them. That is what music is to me, a feeling. It's similar with people too.
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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.
