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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It's really about, oh come on, this guy wouldn't say that or he wouldn't do that, you know, it's about the characters, about the story, about the situation.
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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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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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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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Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.
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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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When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just like Shepperton, and so they built and lived in houses exactly like these. I now know I was drawn here because, on an unconscious level, Shepperton reminds me of Shanghai.
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A lot of women say to me, 'You know, I really hated you because my kids wanted you to be their mother.'
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Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
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That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.
