Yakov Smirnoff Quotes
My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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I hadn't planned to be a model. It just happened by pure chance. I went to a beauty school with my sister, and I got discovered pretty late. I was discovered when I was 20-21.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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In my opinion, the vast majority of scripts written - as well as most movies that are released - are not very original, well-written, or interesting. It has always been that way, and I think it always will be.
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I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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I have two older sisters; I'm the youngest.
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Aja Naomi is one of my good friends.
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My landlady, who is only a tailor's widow, reads her Milton; and tells me, that her late husband first fell in love with her on this very account: because she read Milton with such proper emphasis.
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The 'sent' folder of my email program is really my biggest inspiration and my biggest source of lyrics. That's where I go to pick up a lot of the lyrics that I'm writing.
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I wasn't paraded around for sale at all. My mother wasn't into that.
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My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.
