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.
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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.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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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.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.
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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?
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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.'
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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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.
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You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
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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.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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Movement, change, light, growth, and decay are the life-blood of nature, the energies that I try to tap through my work.
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Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot.
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Lying damages others. Lying subtly permits us to destroy ourselves as we are caught in the snare and shatter our own self-image and credibility. Freedom from deceit and lying improves self and gives all of us peace of mind.
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When script is written well, then you start to make decisions of, "Well, do I want to be away from home for that long? Do I like the people involved?" When it's written well, a lot of those things go away and you can't not do it.
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I've always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don't fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal creatures on Earth. And somehow we humans think we're smarter....what a joke.
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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.
