Maidie Norman Quotes
When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Less make-up is better, and it's always better to let your natural beauty shine. Essentially, be happy with your appearance.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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I'm kind of a crazy person about hand sanitizer. I carry the plain ones that smell like aloe, from Target or CVS.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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I was studying political science; I was adamant that I was going to follow in my father's footsteps.
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It's every little girl's dream to go onto the World Cup.
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I only surround myself with people who are intellectually stimulating.
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Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.
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I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.
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He Manet holds up that eternal Mademoiselle Gonzales as an example; she has poise, perseverance, she can get her things finished whereas I am incapable of doing anything properly. In the meantime he Manet has started her portrait again, for the twenty-fifth time. She poses every day, and every night he rubs out the head..
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When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.
