Lauryn Hill Quotes
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I'm very content.
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I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in acting, and I had been doing school plays. A couple of years later, I called him up, and I started auditioning.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional business and retail lending activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets. This was one aspect of modern financial liberalisation that had dire consequences.
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When you grow up without it, you want to have it. It's funny, in America some people say, 'Why do you want to make money so much?' And I say, 'Well, I guess you didn't starve as a kid.'
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.
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I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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To assume that someone's views are invariably influenced or shaped by his or her partner is lazy. It is an intellectual crutch we grope for when we do not have an effective counter to someone's argument.
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You don't know fear until it's 7 A.M. and freezing cold on live television, and you're not sure if Justin Bieber is going to kiss you or not.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I've just always been interested in alter-naturalism and seeing if you can make real life interesting enough to be dramatic without enhancing it. Like, could you make a movie or write a play in which there's no compression of time, there's no enhanced event, it's just real life?
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I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.
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I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.
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I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
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It was absurd and frustrating, to feel so much and know so little.
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You might win some, but you just lost one.
