Nadia Bjorlin Quotes
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The first award that I recall having received was in the form of a scholarship when I was studying in the 5th standard. I was granted this scholarship for achieving academic excellence, and it continues to be one of the high points in my life.
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I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
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I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.
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There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
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Places seem to me to have some kind of memory, in that they activate memory in those who look at them.
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One of the things is, in the writing process, if you do it enough, you have a sense of where you are. I didn't have that with the first book as I was writing it. Now, as I write books, I have a sense of where I am. Unfortunately, the sense of where I am is usually behind.
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Comic-Con has become more of a pop cultural festival, and to not be included feels like you're missing the biggest celebration of the year.
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Here's the thing about Apple technology: once you own a piece, you want to use it.
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I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when the show was on, or set your VCR. But that was a big thing, and people of my generation still talk about that. They remember where they were, at what point of their lives that show came, and then talking about it the next day.
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The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.
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I love basketball players for what they do for their size - so graceful.
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Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored.
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When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.
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Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.
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I think feminism is about the spirit.
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Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity in Britain. I find that very depressing.
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My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.
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Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion... the subject must be something you truly love or truly hate.
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Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.
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Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!
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Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
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Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.
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'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
