Irina Shayk Quotes
At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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I've been a novelist since 1995 and have had novels in and out of option, and watching that process just made me realize that I have to live by what I teach my students, because I teach screenwriting at Spellman.
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I have a nice smile, pretty lips, and big round cheeks. They help me look like a teenager.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
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When Chipotle asked me to take part in the Cultivating Thought program both as an author and an essay contest judge, I was excited by the idea of sharing my story through this unique channel and helping young, inspiring writers do the same.
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'Pay it forward' has become a hackneyed concept, but I truly believe in it, and it gives me huge satisfaction to be able to help writers in a measurable way.
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To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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Everyone at a party is uncomfortable. Knowing that makes me more comfortable.
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I thought I was going to be a filmmaker but at the same time I was an intellectual and I felt that I could make a contribution to some field, as yet, not invented.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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It is possible for a woman to be a romantic, but also to be single and to be happy.
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Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
