Brenda Lee Quotes
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There is no such thing as a perfect mother.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.
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In the film industry, you are fictitious, just like the characters you play. It has a lot do with a perception about you, and not necessarily you. You are successful because people like that image of you on screen.
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It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.
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In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
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It's nice to look out and see your family supporting you.
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The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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When you write a novel, you never have to be in the service of the reader. My only concern with my books is that the world that's created be as logical and whole as possible.
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We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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I think that when people who've had success from a young age go through a train-wreck cycle, it's usually because they're working on someone else's terms, so they feel the need to rebel. But when it's something you've built, you don't have that same kind of resentment or angstiness. But it's also difficult to keep those standards for yourself.
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It’s not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.
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A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite.
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To be fully human is perhaps why I'm Christian, because I see in the life of Jesus a way of being fully human.
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There is no authority who decides what is a good idea.
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The Beatles were raw musically, but I think they really had something.
