Leslie Jamison Quotes
The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf.
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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I think it would be bizarre to pick somebody to speak at the convention based on their sexual preference, because once you go down that road, why don't you pick a transvestite?
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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There is an enormous shadow industry of scammers and amateurs who prey on aspiring writers, who divert people from the real publishing industry into this shadow world of vanity publishing and fee-charging agents.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
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When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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I have long understood that climate change is not only an environmental issue - it is a humanitarian, economic, health, and justice issue as well.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
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A 'Cosmo' cover has been my dream my entire life. I cried when I found out.
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Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.
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I've always known what I'm meant to do. The path of my life has been about discovering what I need to do to support myself as a writer.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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The ability to take another perspective has become one of the keys to both sales and non-sales selling. And the social science research on perspective-taking yields some important lessons for all of us.
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I learned not to depend on other people. I needed support, but it's you who has to go out and deliver.
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The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf.
