Laeta Kalogridis Quotes
When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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Skateboarding was the only thing I was ever good at. Growing up, I was doing that from, like, dusk till dawn.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
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The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised a political and military, if not economic, hegemony on the culture as a whole. The idea of democracy was first born and practised here.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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Monogamy is not something that's important to me. I don't think it defines love.
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I love the dignity in the name Philadelphia, but at heart, we're Philly.
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Mim to Nelson 'Your father wasn't stupid, he just acted stupid.'
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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You don’t find time for important things, you make it.
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When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.
