Nathalie Handal Quotes
I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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A plan is always successful if the plan is good.
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When I was in high school, I earned the pimple award and every other gross-out award.
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Every designer needs a story. Mine is all about glamour because my family has been in the business of glamour for three generations. My grandfather Shamshuddin Khan started his embroidery and fabric-making business in the 1930s.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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You have people who are so passionate and touched by my work, which is so humbling. But other times, it's a little overwhelming. If I'm just trying to go to the bodega and get some coconut water, I have to put on a hat and some glasses - those kind of things.
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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
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Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.
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Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.
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I never co-write. I've tried it before, and I just can't do it.
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I believe because it is absurd.
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I moved to Nashville with the same kind of mindset that I had in L.A., and that is to make sure you don't get outworked by anybody and make sure you're always writing songs and take every opportunity to play that you can.
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There I was as a kid: a closeted homosexual who wants to be an actress. I had no choice! Wanting to act was something I was wired with when I was born. I never thought I would have success or celebrity, although I did want that. But what I wanted more than anything was to work.
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I don't steal things. I'm rich.
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I feel most at home when I am writing a poem—because in that instant, I am everywhere.
