Carl Honore Quotes
Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
Camila Alves
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
Frances McDormand
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
Olesya Rulin
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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
Iris Chang
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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
Gail Sheehy
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
Gabrielle Reece
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
Taylor Dayne
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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
Garry Shandling
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It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'
Patrick Whitesell
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
Aaron Sorkin
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
Kate Beckinsale
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
Faye Dunaway
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
Pat Garrett
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
Carl Hiaasen
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
Yami Gautam
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
Malala Yousafzai
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HuhI can't turn you loose now. If I do I'm gonna loose my life. OohI can't turn you loose now. If I do I'm gonna loose my life. I can't turn you loose to nobodyI love you baby, yes I do. Give shakin' mama, I told ya. I'm in love with only you. Gotta Baby do it baby why don't yaI'll give ya everything you want.
Otis Redding
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If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
Levon Helm
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Even when I think of writing fiction, it's being kind of a liar, a storyteller, a weaver, and there's that sense of how much of this is your life. The story is a way you unravel your life from behind a mask.
Edwidge Danticat
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.
Val Kilmer
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Forensic techniques are enormously useful in a wide range of fields outside the criminal justice system.
Mark Walport
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Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
Carl Honore