Arabella Weir Quotes
Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
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There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?
J. Cole
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
Rachel Kushner
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
Victor Garber
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
Octavia Spencer
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
Natasha Henstridge
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I'm a man without a corporation.
Paddy Chayefsky
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
Iain Sinclair
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My mum was a dancer. She would tour the world with a group, and she had me in a dance class when I was still in a nappy. They told her to come back when I could walk.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
Yami Gautam
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
Fatema Mernissi
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Art historians agree that Da Vinci's paintings contain hidden levels of meaning that go well beneath the surface of the paint. Many scholars believe his work intentionally provides clues to a powerful secret... a secret that remains protected to this day by a clandestine brotherhood of which Da Vinci was a member.
Dan Brown
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The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.
Pat Buckley
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The pageant movie I'm obsessed with is 'Miss Congeniality', hands down! I could quote everything from that movie. I love so many scenes, but I always find myself quoting the scene when Sandra Bullock goes, 'I really do just want world peace!'
Olivia Culpo
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I feel like a good mom. I'm a strong woman now... Don't look down on me. Pray for me because I'm trying.
Fantasia Barrino
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
Ed Case
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
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Search for the truth is the noblest occupation of man; its publication is a duty.
Madame de Stael
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When I first released music, and no one knew what I looked like, I would read comments like: 'I've never heard anything like this before; it's not in a genre.' And then my picture came out six months later: now she's an R&B singer.
FKA twigs
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I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to America when she was five with my grandmother and grandfather, and that was the family I knew. Everybody sang; everybody had songs all the time, and they loved music.
Jeff Buckley
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The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.
Dirk Benedict
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I got my hush puppies on. I guess I never was made meant for glitter rock and roll.
Jimmy Buffett
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Society prizes a girl for being thin more than anything else she might bring to the table.
Arabella Weir