Saskia de Brauw Quotes
When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
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We've come into the world of '1984,' but it turns out to be '1984'-Lite.
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I love to smile.
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If I can save one kid's life, for me, it's absolutely worth it.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Fashion's about extravagance, and everyone needs a bit of that.
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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Women's vulnerability around money is hardly exclusive to Africa. Throughout the world, women struggle with financial power. In the West, women's financial literacy is notably lower than men's. That lack of knowledge means that many women slide into poverty when they become widows.
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I think it's great anytime somebody can be in control of their own distribution.
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No matter what color you are, if you mentor some little boy or girl, you make a huge difference in their lives because they then model behavior that leads to success versus modeling behavior that doesn't.
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Every once in awhile, a girl has to indulge herself.
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When you have to do all the more crappy jobs before, you appreciate all the good work that comes out of that. There are many girls who immediately have a top model career, and there are lots of models who are doing things that aren't as exciting as doing big campaigns and beautiful magazines.
