Camila Mendes Quotes
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The ideas keep going, you have the material, you cut because there's a limit to the space allowed to you. And the space is limited because of some other constraints that have to do with money or printing or whatever.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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In Genesis 6:3, it says man can live to be 120, but there is no scientific basis for it.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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Inspiration is God making contact with itself.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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My friends gave me the first songs which was the first food in my soul for me.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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I'm not a top-five player yet. Maybe I'm close to it, but I still have to work on some aspects. You can only be part of that group if you are decisive in the top games.
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Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.
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Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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When the law says you're entitled to an attorney, it doesn't mean you're entitled to an attorney who sleeps or an attorney who doesn't do his job.
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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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I don't want to be the ingenue anymore. It's nice to be glamorous, but I don't want to always be an object of desire. Because it doesn't last.
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In any job you do, you're going to have off days.
