Gabrielle Union Quotes
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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I don't like attacking.
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Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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You're not going to do good work if you're not choosing something because it inspires you.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.
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I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.
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My family is first-generation Nigerian, and we grew up in a very small, suburban town in New England, Massachusetts. So I do understand what it feels like to be an 'only' in that regard.
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You have to be resilient.
