H. Rider Haggard Quotes
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.
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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Making music is fantastic.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
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Genius of a kind has always been with me; an empty heart that has taken on a certain wooden quality; an excellent, strong woman's body and a pitiably starved soul.
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Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.
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I think if companies start reinventing themselves and focus on the customer experience more, they will win out in the end.
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All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.
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My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and 'beauty sleep' didn't exist anymore!
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We white people think that we know everything.
