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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That's what I apply to everything.
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The Toothbrush mustache was first introduced in Germany by Americans, who turned up with it at the end of the 19th century the way Americans would turn up with ducktails in the 1950s. It was a bit of modern efficiency, an answer to the ornate mustaches of Europe - pop effluvia that fell into the grip of a bad, bad man.
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I have the modest goals of replacing the whole petrochemical industry.
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Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.
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All things considered, there are only two kinds of men in the world: those that stay at home and those that do not.
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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.
