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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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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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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In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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The battalion, the whole battalion was affected by the two killed just within a week of being there, and I think that that pulled everybody up to make them realise that this was a very serious business.
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As Americans after 9/11, we're much more united, together as a nation, and we got stronger, better, and more at peace. By peace, I mean the harmony you can feel in our united determination to fight these terrorists and killers.
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The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'.
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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.
