Marie Helvin Quotes
I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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I like to do things quickly because I'm easily bored.
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The world is always terrible.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
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I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
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If audiences are sort of interested in movies that are made like McDonald's hamburgers, which do have a value in the world, then we have to re-evaluate our entire career.
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If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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I was always looking to record, but how much I actually pursued it was another thing. The major labels weren't that interested in me, and the smaller labels didn't have any money to do anything.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
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Do we need more laws? God forbid! We need more righteousness, more freedom, and more godly men -- and fewer laws.
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For me, novel-writing, by its nature, contains months of feeling lost, gloomy, fatally misguided. The challenge has always been in assuring myself that by setting one foot in front of the other, I will eventually make my way out of the desert.
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I want to go to a country where I don't speak the language. I want to be lost in translation.
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If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.
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Your feelings are validated by the fact that you're feeling them.
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I lost all my investments after everything crashed in 2001. Prior to that, I'd been living off the interest on my investments, which was very healthy because it allowed frequent travel, and I had a lovely apartment.
