Dafydd ap Gwilym Quotes
I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.
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It's hard to always be on top. You go down, you go up.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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I don't get star-struck at all.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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I'm not graceful.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, sports, family relations, you know, all the sections you would expect, and wonderful religion things.
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I sang in a reggae band. And then there was a soul band where I sang back-up vocals and some lead. And I was also in a women's a capella group. And I was in the gospel choir at school. Actually, I've always been in choirs. Or some kind of group. Just because I love singing so much. But I truthfully never thought of it as a career.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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I wanted [photography] to be more than a document, to be something that is as close as you could possibly be to the subject.
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I really liked John Candy in 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles.' He was so good in that movie.
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The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.
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I don't have to carry myself as anybody that I'm not, and people picked up on it.
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Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.
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I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.
