Natalia Vodianova Quotes
I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I come bearing an olive branch in one hand, and the freedom fighter's gun in the other. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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As athletes, we all have egos, we all think we can help, and when you're not given that chance, it's hard to watch.
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'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.
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Chris Christie is New Jersey's concern, not America's.
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The core problem is that the world is full of people who would like to take 99 per cent of the information that's on the Internet, and eliminate 1 per cent. Everyone has their own thing they don't like.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I tore my abdomen. That ended my football career, which was what I wanted to do my entire life, and when that was over, I pretty much looked to just about anything, but nothing really caught my interest.
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I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
