Reeva Steenkamp Quotes
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
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I was very shy and reserved, so it was a bit contradictory to get into politics.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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Our founders said that everybody mattered, everybody counted. But we all know that they didn't count everybody at the beginning. They did somehow have confidence that each generation of Americans would do a better job with it and would bring more and more people in from the margins and into the heart and soul of our democracy.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
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I used to be so scared about, 'Oh, I don't want to show my body.' Now that I've shown it, it doesn't bug me about my moles, or 'This isn't big enough' and 'That's not smooth enough.'
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Do I still think there will be a day when all the wrongs are made right, when our souls find the completion they are looking for? I do. But when all things are made right, it won’t be because of some preacher or snake-oil salesman or politician or writer making promises in his book. I think, instead, this will be done by Jesus. And it will be at a wedding. And there will be a feast.
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I want to be seen as a classic model.
