Xaviera Hollander Quotes
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods.
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I realized that you didn't have to make self-deprecating remarks or turn yourself into the butt of some unspoken joke. I also discovered that being big didn't deter possible suitors.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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One of my random skills is I have a very strong memory for dialogue and moments, and I don't know why.
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People retire to do what I do every day.
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The government generally is just too top-heavy.
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If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
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In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me; that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one.
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My Pleasure is my business
