Kandyse McClure Quotes
I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to the complete opposite and confusing people.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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I think encouraging young people to twerk might be a bad thing. It's a stripper's move. If I had a daughter of nine, I wouldn't want her twerking.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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I got married very early, and in no time at all, we had three children. And it seemed to me I had an obligation to support them.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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I have a great legacy, tarnished somewhat by the move.
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The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.
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Tradition is only a readymade. It’s for us to make a new gesture-to use it as a reference, more as a starting point than conclusion. Of course, there are very different attitudes and interpretations about our past and our memory of it. And ours is never a complete one, but is broken. In China, but also in my practice.
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I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.
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I could never have dreamed the life I lead. Given where I started, it's remarkable to me the constant adventure that my life has become.
