Odetta Holmes (Odetta) Quotes
The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.Odetta Holmes
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
G. Hannelius -
It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.
Olivia Culpo -
It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
Garry Marshall -
Directing Marilyn Monroe was like directing Lassie. You needed fourteen takes to get each one of them right.
Otto Preminger -
I work out in a studio. Every day, regardless where I am, at least two hours. I need it. I can't cease it.
Gabriela Sabatini -
A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
Walter Kirn
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Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.
Alphonse de Lamartine -
You want to arrest the clocks, stop everything for half a second, give yourself a chance to do it over again, rewind the life, uncrash the car, run it backward, have her lift miraculously back into the windshield, unshatter the glass, go about your day untouched, some old, lost sweet-tasting time.But there it was again, the girl's spreading bloodstain.
Colum McCann -
This much have I learned: A man’s life weighs more than glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.
Lloyd Alexander -
I'm pretty good at getting things out of the way, especially paperwork. I hate it sitting about, as it somehow weighs me down.
Cherie Lunghi -
Once you've changed who you are or who you've portrayed in your music, the fans, they'll catch it... Once I feel like the world knows me for anything else but my music, then I feel like I failed.
The Weeknd -
I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.
Lauren Ambrose -
I wasn't born in Mexico - I was born in Nicaragua - but I know that, when somebody like Donald Trump says 'Mexicans,' he means all of us. He means anybody who comes from south of the border.
Ana Navarro -
Obviously Mad TV, SNL are one kind of show, whereas The State belongs to the kind of show that is entirely conceived written and performed by a set group that existed before the TV show.
David Wain -
One of the powers of a sit-in is its visibility and potential to mobilize public opinion; the way the protest is reported in the media can have a powerful influence over its eventual success or failure.
Parker Conrad -
What you feel is important may not be what the director feels is important.
Christina Ricci -
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Charles Baudelaire
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I have real TV studios. If I have an idea, I can go shoot it. I can experiment. If I choose to air it or not, it's at my discretion. I don't have to do it to somebody else's time frame.
Criss Angel -
The message was, the choices you make can have bad consequences. Everyone has the power of choice. Just like this kid had the power of choice to steal my car.
Bill Vaughan -
You can go home with a lot of money with absolutely no skill.
Howie Mandel -
The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
Mac Thornberry -
There's a really great feeling among the Australians in Hollywood. There's so many of us, and we all support each other, and it's a really nice feeling, being able to sit back and see so many people doing so well.
Benedict Samuel -
The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall.
Odetta Holmes