Brenda Shoshanna Quotes
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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I don't eat red meat.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
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I loved Judy Garland. I thought she was such a classic beauty. I thought she was so endearing and charming, and I loved her voice. She was such a dreamer, and I think I was, too - and I am.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio. When I say something untrue on the air, I mean for it to be transparently untrue. I assume people know when I'm just saying something for effect. Or to be funny.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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It seems to me that more and more we've come to expect less and less from each other, and I think that should change.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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If it's an amazing role, I'll do anything.
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I can't stand on a podium and beat my chest saying I'm the best. I just think I've been the luckiest of all. Yes, I'm talented. The movies that I've chosen and the way they've fared have also helped. I've always done films I would love to watch. I have stayed away from films which I thought were depressing.
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China just banned ICO fundraising. They did Silicon Valley and the U.S. a favor - now we get first dibs.
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Just as He had done with David, Samuel, and Joseph of the Old Testament, God took an innocent, unlearned boy, one still unsullied by the world and pliable to His divine will, and molded and shaped him into His chosen prophet.
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What is the truth, but a lie agreed upon.
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We learn by taking action and seeing whether it works or not.
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Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."
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We learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without.
