Waris Dirie Quotes
I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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I will keep working hard!
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Music is my release.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe that the more government grows, the less freedom Americans have.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning.
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I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.
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It's how the '70s were for movies, the 2000s are for TV. I think it's a phenomenal time for TV and to be involved in it.
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I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
