Michelle Grabner Quotes
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
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If you feel good, you stand up a bit straighter.
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I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.
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For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.
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I use music to focus, like an internal motor.
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My whole philosophy has been to let the work speak for itself, because that's really what you want to show.
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A novel, or indeed any work of art, is not intended to be a literal transcription from Nature. … Life is a series of false values. There it is always the little things that are greatest. Art attempts to remedy this. It may be defined as an expurgated edition of Nature.
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Location is all about the efficiency of work for me.
