Kamila Shamsie Quotes
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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We love playing music but we're too weird to play music.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
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I remember devouring the entire Hardy Boys series over one summer, enthralled by their bravery and cleverness.
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A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.
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I have always been more of a joyous person than a sad person. But I was fortunate to have a mom and dad where my mom could look at my face and know what was going on and was able to get me to talk and draw it out. As a result, I didn't have to hide an emotion. I didn't have to worry about her telling me, 'That's silly.'
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I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.
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The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.
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If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.
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Difficult but worth it-- that's how my mother had once describe life with Omi.
