Marie Helvin Quotes
I'm slim for professional reasons, and I work at it. I really want to continue working. There aren't that many models who are still doing it at 60.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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I do think that it's extremely important with this character show her assuming power with a great deal of grace, and find out how to do things she won't like - the things she's called upon to do.
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One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
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Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.
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Even when matches don't work out the way you planned, you've always got to stay strong in defence; it's a matter of willpower and intelligence.
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To work effectively as an agent of change in a pluralistic society, it is necessary to be able to connect with people different from oneself.
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I'm slim for professional reasons, and I work at it. I really want to continue working. There aren't that many models who are still doing it at 60.
