Candice Olson Quotes
With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.
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I think I've been around for a while. But I still have to pay my dues.
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I grew up in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, and reading was a big part of my life - I'd get through several books a week.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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The Federal Reserve is incapable of accomplishing its stated objectives.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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I love design-based stuff. I dug it in 'Pleasantville' and dug it in 'Seabiscuit.'
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
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I'm not courting labor. I come from a labor background. To me, it's just intuitive.
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I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.
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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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A lot of times, people just want to be more extreme than the next band or the next person, and that's all they focus on. That's kind of lost on me.
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It's so dry on planes, and when you are flying for 30 hours, facial mists and moisturizers are an absolute must!
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So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
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With every bathroom renovation, there are three areas that I focus on: budget, function and style.
