Barbie Ferreira Quotes
I started my modelling career by sending my pictures to American Apparel and eventually meeting my friend Petra Collins, who started shooting me for magazines around New York. I ended up signing a modelling contract with Wilhelmina Models a couple of years later.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Many are ready, when listening to the inventor, to belittle and deny his achievements so that he will no longer be heard in honourable places, but after some months or a year, they use the inventor's words in speech or writing or design.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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Honestly, I find writing to be a very lonely job.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I am a compulsive and concise shopper.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I love drama. Drama is, like, my thing. I want a movie that will move something inside me, that's going to shift something and keep me thinking.
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To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.
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My family never missed a visit in eight months, ever. I cried coming out. I didn't cry coming in. There's a big difference. I believe that God put me there for a reason, Incarceration is serious.
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I still sing on bits and pieces. Singing's something that I love to do, but it's not something that I pursue as a career.
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I like the way Quentin Tarantino creates a scene using a series of close-ups or showing very cool images of a person or people walking on some ordinary street in slow motion. I wish I could achieve that kind of slow-motion effect in manga, but it's rather difficult to draw; the only things we can play with are tones of black and white.
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Sometimes being a survivor is the greatest compliment you can get in Hollywood.
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Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.
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I started my modelling career by sending my pictures to American Apparel and eventually meeting my friend Petra Collins, who started shooting me for magazines around New York. I ended up signing a modelling contract with Wilhelmina Models a couple of years later.
