Paloma Elsesser Quotes
I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
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My dad also plays a little banjo and guitar, my mom plays the mandolin.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I had an apartment on Long Beach Blvd and San Vicente in Long Beach, California. That was the apartment I done 'Regulate' in. I had all my equipment set up in the bedroom, a vocal booth in the bathroom and in the closet, and that's where we created it. I had an MPC 60, a Numark mixer, and a Technics 1200, and a ton of records.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
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I've used a cellphone exactly twice. Things move on. The world changes. And I don't know it.
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You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.
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People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'
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Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.
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People I respect complimenting me on my work in fashion is more exciting to me than anything I ever achieved as a Spice Girl. I am now competing in an arena where I can hold my head high. I feel quite confident in what I'm doing now, much more than the singing. I was never going to give Mariah Carey any competition.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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I won't be making any friends in the corporate suites.
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Just because you are out doesn't make you the poster boy for the gay community.
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The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.
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My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
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More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...'
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My husband has no desire to work with me; don't get it twisted. He gets paid a lot of money to write giant movies. He's not into humoring me with my projects. But, that being said, I did have the story credit on 'Blades of Glory,' and writing is something that I've always been interested in pursuing more.
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I originally went to school for writing, for non-fiction. I'm specifically a poetry major within literature, but I don't know.
