Amber Denise Streeter (Sevyn Streeter) Quotes
Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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I think pregnancy, like life, is what you make it. I received a good hand. I'm thankful and blessed and so peaceful and can't wait to welcome my son.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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I used to act in television commercials when I was a kid and a young adult.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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Those boos really motivate me to make something happen.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
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The NFL is my goal, not my dream. My dream is to have an impact on people.
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I have a really hard time finding good denim.
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I have always liked a challenge.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
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A book I would take with me to a desert island is 'Paradise Lost,' which I studied in college and hated so much by the end of the class that I never wanted to see it again.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I always wrote as a vehicle for expression but did not try writing for publication until my mid-thirties, at which time I started writing for magazines. I wrote essays and then short stories, then moved into novels.
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
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French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
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Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.
