Lynsey Addario Quotes
I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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Get Miramax to send me down to Australia. I'd like to see it.
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While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door again. As soon as I finished the book, I moved to Hong Kong so that I could work undisturbed on my next novel.
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When I was in my 20s, I learned not only how to work hard but about the importance of focus.
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Food decisions - do I eat this or not? - are always going to be there.
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When I was a kid, I would be watching TV shows like, you know, like 'Get Smart' and be like, 'That's what being an adult is.'
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When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
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I created a character whose motives were pure and good and she was going to go out and save the whole world. But the truth is, you can't save the whole world, but you can save one. And that was the whole thrust of the novel - to save just one.
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I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.
