Stephan El Shaarawy Quotes
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Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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I received free health care.
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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My life is black and white and mixed. My mother's a Rastafarian, my dad was a short white guy - it's not an affectation. It's also the lives of millions of people throughout the world.
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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.
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I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.
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When I got married in Bucharest, there were 10,000 people on the street. People didn't go to work that day. It was emotional to see how people care about you. I didn't expect that.
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Stopping to think is fine for characters, but not for their creators. They have to work.
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Anybody can do a deal. The tough part is doing the deal at the right time, being strategic.
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It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.
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A day with my kids is the best day.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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It's true, you never forget your first love, and, for me, that will always be Paris.
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The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
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I've always noticed a difference between working with a director and working with a writer/director. In how much they're invested and how specific they are.
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Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.
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It takes a few years to prepare for a space mission.
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When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.
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Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.
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A champion's strength comes from never being contented.
