Maelle Gavet Quotes
I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.

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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.
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What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I have a great office.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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Those who foolishly pride themselves on their nobility mistake that which makes them noble, for it is only the virtue of their ancestors that gives them noble blood.
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I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.
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Sometimes you have to put back in the community.
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I am an optimist. I believe the future is bright. I think people who see life painted in dark colors are the ones who do not take ownership.