Marie Helvin Quotes
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
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The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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Before I got married, I dated the gamut.
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I continually acted up to get attention. My father gave me that, and once he left, I felt that I didn't have any.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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All records are not made to be broken.
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On the death penalty:(the argument that it costs more to appeal death row convictions than to imprison someone for life.) 'Ken Starr gave me the perfect comeback on that,' she scoffs. 'How many millions of dollars were we willing to spend to show that the President had oral sex?'
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good.
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Men are intimidated by me: I very rarely get asked out.
