Nicole Richie (Nicole Camille Richie-Madden) Quotes
It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I am the bridge between the East and the West. I don't want to abandon one for the other.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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A goal is a dream with a deadline.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid.
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My sister learned she was a carrier for a recessive disease, Bloom syndrome, late in one of her pregnancies. I remember the panicked call and the weeks of worry as she and her husband awaited his test results; if he was also a carrier, this meant their daughter had a one in four chance of being born with the disorder.
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People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.
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It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.
