J. M. G. Le Clezio Quotes
I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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I think shortly after I got signed, it just started to dawn on me that I had something to say and that Yahweh put something in my heart to share with the world.
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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
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My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have!
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I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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If there are negative people around me, I just try to distance myself from that.
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There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.
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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.
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The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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I'm not a party person.
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Christians who have influence in political life must feel as individuals responsibility in front of their own faith. And the duty of encouraging laws that are not in contradiction with the Commandments comes within the mission of the Church.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
