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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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 don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
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I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.
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The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.
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I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25.
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Because food and energy prices are volatile, it is often helpful to look at inflation excluding those two categories - known as core inflation - which is typically a better indicator of future overall inflation than recent readings of headline inflation.
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In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
