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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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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There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.
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The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.
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Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.
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As an actor, it's my job to prepare myself for a role. If the character is realistic, one can't go wrong.
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Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.
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I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
