Shania Twain Quotes
I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.
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I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of the hand you're dealt. It's a challenge-and I'm not atypical.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.
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I would love a family. I'm at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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I am a rereader. Quality is variety if you wait long enough. Barthes, Baudelaire, Benjamin, Celine, Duras, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Melville: There is so much to revisit. 'Ingrid Caven,' by Jean-Jacques Schuhl, is always in rotation. I used to read 'Morvern Callar,' by Alan Warner, every year - I adored that book.
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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.
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For over ten years I always had, but I don't speak English.
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For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
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Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
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I am attracted to intelligence, a witty sense of humor, an adventurous outlook on life and spiritual awareness about one's self and the world.
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.
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I have done good roles. I feel good about myself.
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Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.
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The answers are in your dreams. The answers are in the things you’re passionate about. The answers are in what brings you joy. You can follow the path that everyone assumes you should follow. Or you can do what really matters most to you. And when you do, I promise that you will always be supported by the people who love you exactly as you are: Strong. Smart. Talented. Uniquely, perfectly you, with a heart as big and boundless as the sky. I
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As Norman McLaren said, animation is not a bunch of drawings that move - it's a bunch of drawings of movement.
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I'm neither embarrassed of who I am, where I come from, what I've experienced, I'm not ashamed of it.
