Leandra Medine Quotes
Man Repeller is intended to chronicle all the fashion trends that women love and men hate. I started it because I am woman with a deep appreciation for harem pants. And sometimes blaming clothing on a sad love life is easier than blaming oneself!
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours.
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The family is very important. They make me feel good always because if I won, when I started to be famous, the relationship never changed with my friends and family.
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Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports.
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Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.
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On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
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The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
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I don't like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.
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My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
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I had to understand the whole bounty hunting thing, because we don't have that in Venezuela. Nothing similar at all, at least not legal.
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At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.
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It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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There is nothing there. What you see is not what you see. What you see is nothing. Nothing but shapes, lines, colors. What you see is whats in your mind. What you see is something somebody told you to look for. Look out for anything you see! Watch it! Watch out! Take care! Don’t leap before you look out.
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Man Repeller is intended to chronicle all the fashion trends that women love and men hate. I started it because I am woman with a deep appreciation for harem pants. And sometimes blaming clothing on a sad love life is easier than blaming oneself!
