Lauren Gibbs Quotes
I've always loved public speaking, and that's something I definitely will pursue after the Olympics.
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No Western government has ever played the long-term in terms of foreign policy.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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The fans sing my name around the world. When I meet fans, they ask, 'How are you? All good with your family?'
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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You can't possibly prepare for what happens to you the day you hit No. 1 and people treat you differently.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.
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I'm mad for satin.
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I have always considered it a beautiful metaphor that Cervantes had no fixed address in Spain. He is thus everywhere and nowhere. There are a number of sites connected with his life, but none attract hordes of travellers the way Stratford-upon-Avon and the Globe Theatre in London draw Shakespeare aficionados.
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Trying to project our expectations and our desires onto the sci-fi being written in China now isn't terribly helpful.
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We can't put up a protectionist dam on our own against the neo-liberal world market either. However, we can try, together with our European partners, to maintain the social character of Europe as much as possible.
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I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.
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Mastery of the German language and the acceptance of our legal system has to become part of the criteria for naturalization.
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You read about poor people having Botox go wrong and you think: 'Well, what the bloody hell were you doing?' Why would you inject yourself with poison? And why are we spending so much time looking at ourselves? I just don't get it.
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I've always loved public speaking, and that's something I definitely will pursue after the Olympics.
