Gennifer Choldenko Quotes
Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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Everybody has this sack they're carrying. Some are heavier. Some are lighter. But no one doesn't have it. And if you think someone doesn't have it, they have a bigger one than you imagine.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.
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I don't belong to anyone.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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The environment around you shapes who you are. How you handle an emergency or how you react when someone is rude to you, that's you.
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I don't like doing pictures as myself. I like to be made into someone else.
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
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I keep reading things in papers and hearing things on open line shows that are just blather as far as I'm concerned and therefore I thought it was very important to reiterate the point
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And there were sort of three toys for boys and three toys for girls. And the boys I can remember was, well, there was a Dan Dare Ray Gun. Dan Dare was a sort of a cartoon character. He was just sort of a - he was like a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, only in space.
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Even if I wouldn't wear something myself, I think I know how women feel, how women want to look. I can really relate to women, I get on very well with women... Some women don't. I want to empower women, make women feel the best version of themselves.
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Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
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Now I understand. When you love someone, you have to try things even if they don't make sense to anyone else.
