Floriana Lima Quotes
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.
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I'm kind of a reluctant guru.
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It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
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There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I grew up kind of a tomboy and I used to fight with all the neighborhood boys.
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
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Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and still won the event. It's just the nature of this type of sailing.
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Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
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I worked with a couple of chocolate Labradors, which were a lot of fun. Very excitable. They're cute.
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I think an old-school Western would kind of be really up my alley and would be so fun, I'm so comfortable in that genre and around horses.
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Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
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'Love Letter' is a concept album, and whenever I do a concept album - and I love doing concept albums more than any other kind of album - it allows me to get dressed, in a way, musically.
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I try to eat in a way that makes me feel good. If that means a little bite of chocolate I do that, but I try not to use food as a reward for myself.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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Not everybody who is overweight comes from deprived backgrounds, but that's where the propensity lies.
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The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.
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Any kind of peanut butter/chocolate concoction is my jam.
