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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My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.
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As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.
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A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
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People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.
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So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.
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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.
