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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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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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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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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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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What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive.
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I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!
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You are born modern, you do not become so.
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If you can say something beautiful in a very terrible way - I was always drawn to that.
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Always know I have something up my sleeve.
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I'm not great at judging a career. Or planning one.
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Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.
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I think the media can definitely show more diversity - different sizes of women, different colours of women, just more diversity in general.
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We are a country that has always been known for providing opportunities to people. We have lost a lot of that opportunity.
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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.
