Eva Ibbotson Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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I would love to see young writers come out of college and know there is a possibility to be a novelist.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
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Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then just go for it. I never know what the public's going to like, anyway.
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A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.
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I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
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We all know in our hearts that forgiveness is the right thing; it's just a matter of being inspired to reach that place.
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I'm loyal. I'm real. I'm not afraid to say what I'm thinking.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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I was in orchestra in high school, but I really started when a friend of mine who's a drummer showed me some things. I was always just really fascinated with drums, it was the instrument I was always drawn towards. My ear sort of went to rhythmic aspects of music and songs. But he really was the beginning point of starting me on drum sets; like I said, I was in the orchestra first and I was playing orchestral snare and mallet instruments first.
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That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.
