Storm Reid Quotes
I just want people to be inspired - not only young girls but young people in general - and I just want them to know they can do anything they want to do, and they are beautiful, and they are smart.
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I know what my comfort zones are. But without a back-up, I will never step out of my comfort zone. I don't go bungee jumping; I won't jump from the third floor without a safety net. I don't do such things. That's not my personality type.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.
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People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
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But if you say: 'How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?' then I say: 'How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?'
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I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.
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It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.
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I want to be remembered as iconic and different.
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I didn't record 'Pumped Up Kicks' out of a sense of moral obligation.
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I'm comfortable with my body but I don't like my bum - I think it's too big.
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I've never really had specific goals and stuff like that - I think I sort of learned early on that if you kind of let life roll in at your feet, you will get a lot of great stuff if you are just aware and open to it.
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There's always going to be the market for people who are known to have led wild and crazy lives.
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I don't have a lot of downtime.
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Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.
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When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Nowadays, this has changed a lot - fortunately for writers and readers. There is much more integration.
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I never write something and consciously embed political commentary or any other kind of commentary. I just try to get the characters into a room or out of a room, or onto the plane, or through the grocery store. The political stuff, the class stuff, the gender stuff, is in the air, it's in their interactions, because it's there for all of us.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I will remember this day for the rest of my life. There is nothing you can say. It's just like you won the match after the earthquake and it just feels great.
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I hope that when people with Down's see me, they will be inspired to do more than they think they can.
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The key [to sharing the gospel] is that you be inspired of God, that you ask Him for direction and then go and do as the Spirit prompts you.
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It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks.
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I've always loved the '40s romantic comedies and the idea of those mistaken identities and lovers' misunderstandings.
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I just want people to be inspired - not only young girls but young people in general - and I just want them to know they can do anything they want to do, and they are beautiful, and they are smart.
