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I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts.

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• Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Up
  • She
  • Age

• You can't control where your heart goes.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Heart
  • You
  • Control

• Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • School
  • Political
  • Change

• We didn't know that Mother had gone through a passionate love affair or that Father suffered from severe depression. Mother was preparing to break out of her marriage, Father threatening to take his own life.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Love
  • Mother

• I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • Up
  • Enjoy

• One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Courage
  • Pessimism

• Factoring in millions of people when I'm writing a song is not a good idea. I don't ever do it.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• I did notice growing up that there are so many things, obstacles and things, that people think you can't do because you're Muslim or because you're wearing a hijab. You hear a lot of no's. That was something that I wanted to see change.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Inspiration
  • Found
  • Wit

• Usually, when you are an ethnic person or a trans person, in your average, everyday, unsophisticated television show, you are there for that reason. And they clearly justify and overexplain why. You very rarely see a transgender actor playing the part of a grocery-store clerk without having to say, 'Oh, look at that trans person.'

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Why
  • You
  • Look

• I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Think
  • Always
  • I Can

• One thing I'm not going to do is chase staying alive. You spend so much time chasing staying alive, you won't live.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Time
  • Live
  • You

• Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Religion

• I am trying every genre.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Trying
  • Genre

• Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.

  

  Obiageli Ezekwesili
  • Media
  • Social Media
  • Tool

• 'Motion', as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957-1987

  

  Octavio Paz

• When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of literature. He also feels himself excused from the particular study of Shakespeare.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Study
  • Literature

• Too often, I have not been what I wanted to be; I've succumbed to pressures. Yes, I have. The things I've done that I liked, I've always done against advice.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Done
  • Advice

• My dad's a doctor, and he'd watch 'Grey's Anatomy,' and he'd be like, 'This is not okay. This isn't what it's like.' And we're like, 'Shut up, it's not about that. That's not why we're watching it.'

  

  Emily Bett Rickards
  • Up
  • Why
  • Dad

• Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Same

• If your child seems to click with another kid in the class, try to set up a time for you to meet at a park after school and get to know their parent. Seeing you be outgoing with the parents of other children will encourage your child to be open and active in their friendships, too!

  

  Eva Amurri
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Friendships

• Christianity in the Middle East is shattered. The ancient faith tradition lies beaten, broken, and dying.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Faith
  • Lies
  • Broken

• Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Money
  • Abuse
  • Selfishness

• I've got perfectionist issues, as I can't seem to let tracks out the studio - it drives my manager nuts.

  

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