Natsuo Kirino Quotes
I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
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The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood. I can always go to my family with any doubts or questions I may have.
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
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Winning the gold medal should have been the happiest day of my entire life, and it just wasn't. It felt like the saddest day of my life. Everyone was so angry with us, that Scott and I had fallen in love, because it was so unprofessional, and we were a disgrace and had betrayed everybody.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Sometimes, it's just unfortunate you get injured in the game. But you can definitely take strides to prevent those things.
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There is some big thing about the world that produced all these people willing to kill themselves just to hurt us. On 9/11 we learned we're part of that world, in the same completely crazy, drastic and arbitrary ways it hits other countries.
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Sometimes it's a relief just to focus on putting one foot in front of the other.
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The United States in the 1980s may be the first society in history in which children are distinctly worse off than adults.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.
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I don't know if foreigners will take to my novels or not. It may be that my books appeal only to a particular gender or age group rather than convey a more universal appeal.
