Gwen Stefani Quotes
At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
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I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.
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The nice thing about Reddit is, we don't have to sell your data or build a profile of you or do stuff that makes people feel uncomfortable.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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Story and plot, not historical facts, are the engine of a novel, but I was committed to working through the grain of actual history and coming to something, an overall effect, which approximated truth.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.
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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.
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I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.
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The methods and tools of science perennially breach barriers, granting me confidence that our epic march of insight into the operations of nature will continue without end.
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One of the symptoms of an absence of innovation is the fact that you lose your jobs. Everyone else catches up with you. They can do what you do better than you or cheaper than you. And in a multinational corporate-free market enterprise, it is the company's obligation to take the factory to a place where they can make it more cheaply.
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President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
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Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?
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At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.
