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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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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Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of 'I know.' Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.
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You are a good friend and we welcome you.
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Prior to Magellan, due to the fact that we knew it was so hot on Venus, we thought that the rocks at the surface would behave more plastically, more like Silly Putty than like solid rock in the way that we think of it, like the rocks that I'm sitting on.
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My listening changed when I heard music from Stax, Atlantic, Motown because by that age I thought anything that my parents listened to must be square. So I had to find my own rock n' roll, as it were, and I found it in black soul music.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.
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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.
