Kelly Rowland Quotes
I had to work 10 times harder. People expect so much of you, because they want to see if you can strive and stand on your own.
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The historical novelist has to consider what has actually happened, while the SF writer is dealing in possibilities, but they are both in the business of imagining a world unlike our own and yet connected to it.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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I know that I've played a lot of comedic roles. It's a visual medium. When you get one role, you start to get cast in that role for awhile because that's what people have seen you do, and have hopefully seen you do it successfully.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think.
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'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.
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I've had quite a lot to conquer in myself apart from writing. Not that I've been a pure angel when I come to the end of it.
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I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.
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All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
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I told my kids, 'It doesn't matter if this person or that person in the family isn't perfect; this is what you've got. We have to work with that, and if you can't work with that, then you're just jumping into someone else's family, and there's always going to be something missing if you don't work that out.'
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People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.
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We are moving into that phase where we expect that wage growth will catch up and take productivity over.
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I had to work 10 times harder. People expect so much of you, because they want to see if you can strive and stand on your own.
