Natalie Imbruglia Quotes
If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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Examine the history of China for 2,000 years back, and then compare it with the Western history of fifty years! Does the government of these foreign countries present such a record of generosity, benevolence, loyalty, and honesty as ours?
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.
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Unfortunately we - and I'm speaking not for Latin America but for Mexico because that's where I come from - we still, I think, are a little bit macho. Not that we only live in a macho world, but we also think as a macho world; even the women, you know? The women in Mexico, because that's the way we were raised.
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In the world we make good as evil and evil as good.
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I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.
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If I start feeling down I'll gorge myself on pasta. That usually does the trick. It's the Italian blood in me.
