Laeta Kalogridis Quotes
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My father has been my role model. And I always looked up to him - be it his management philosophy or his approach towards life.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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The biggest kick I get is to communicate with those who are exiled from the game - in hospitals, homes, prisons - those who have seldom seen a game, who can't travel to a game, those who are blind.
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I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
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I do tend to overdo everything.
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Bahrain lies at the epicenter of Gulf security and any violent upheaval in Bahrain would have enormous geopolitical consequences. Global economic stability depends on the uninterrupted export of crude oil from the Gulf to markets around the world - a job that historically has been assigned to the U.S. Fifth Fleet.
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I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.
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I think governments can't do much.
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The process, not the results, have to be the reason a writer writes. Otherwise, creating a four-hundred-page novel is just too daunting a task.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.
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I am obsessed with planning travel! Not just traveling, which I love, but the whole planning process and all the details that go into it. I subscribe to all these travel blogs and airline forums and research hotels and activities and destinations for hours on end, and I volunteer to plan trips for everyone I know.
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A girl has the power to go forward in her life. And she’s not only a mother, she’s not only a sister, she’s not only a wife. But a girl has the – she should have an identity. She should be recognized and she has equal rights as a boy.
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I just never count on anything. You can't.
