Heather O'Neill Quotes
It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.
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I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I always say spend more on classics, like a good pair of leather trousers, an amazing tailored jacket, or a classic handbag. Then you can just mix your everyday tops from the high street.
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My record speaks for itself.
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I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
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My biggest asset is that I know how to learn, and that, I believe, will help me in the long run.
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I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
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There are forms of art that I might not like to do myself, but I still have respect for the artists who create it.
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I am not a home breaker and I can never be. I haven't been brought up to create havoc in other people's homes.
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I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get.
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In some ways. I always feel between worlds, between cultures, and I think that's not necessarily a bad place for a writer to be. Writers are kind of on the fringe anyway, observing, writing things down. I'm still mostly American, but it's a nice tension.
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People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.
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Whenever someone refers to me as someone "who happens to be black," I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.
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Besides, they are our outward consciences, And preachers to us all, admonishing That we should drew us fairly for our end.
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It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.
