Lilly Singh Quotes
I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I've only dressed in drag three or four times.
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.
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I'm a television junkie.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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But this is one of the things that makes rap at its best so human. It doesn't force you to pretend to be only one thing or another, to be a saint or a sinner. It recognizes that you can be true to yourself and still have unexpected dimensions and opposing ideas. Having a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other is the most common thing in the world. The real bullshit is when you act like you don't have contradictions inside you, that you're so dull and unimaginative that your mind never changes or wanders into strange, unexpected places.
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I have seen things few of my countrymen have. The first time I went on an aeroplane I couldn't work out how the lavatories worked up in the sky.
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I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.
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Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular, there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.
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I left school at sixteen - I was fed up and restless. The only thing that interested me at school was English language and literature, but I didn't have Latin, and so couldn't go on to university. So I went to a few drama schools, not studying seriously; I was mostly in love at the time and tied up with that.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't hope, dream or wish for things. I work and work and work.
