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"3079 Attitude Quotes

The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.

Myself Weird Conversation Kind
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When you go to work, you want to have fun, because when you're having fun, you're not really working.

Fun Work Have Working
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You can call me mercenary, or call me madam, but, as I always tell my customers - just call me anytime.

Call Madam Always You
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I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Have Speech Never Often
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I wanted to hide away and write. I wanted to meet characters who would climb up my pen. I wanted to create a completely new world, inventing everyone and everything.

Hide Write Climb Create
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There was a huge period where I was filming and studying. But then we went into summer and it became easier. I did find combining the two difficult and I haven't figured out how to do it effortlessly just yet.

Period Huge Summer Difficult
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

Writing Movie Total Dialogue
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

Conscience Blush Sincerely Man
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I am a glutton for tranquility.
Glutton Tranquility
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

Colonialism Bred Innate Imperial
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

Ultimate Lesson Just Write
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Nobody can teach me who I am. You can describe parts of me, but who I am - and what I need - is something I have to find out myself.

Teach Nobody Who Describe
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the country because of difference in religion. These are things we should put behind us.

Nigeria Trouble Mistreatment Religion
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A coward dies a thousand deaths. A soldier dies but once.
Coward Dies Soldier Thousand
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Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever.

Change Extort Forever Intend
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Forgive but don’t forget, girl keep your head up. And when he tells you you ain’t nothing, don’t believe him. And if he can’t learn to love you, you should leave him.

Forgive Forget Girl Head
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There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

Scare Business Strong Nobody
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I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
Career Private Life Eye
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I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

Horse Races Take Lonely
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I find that movies tend to fix the aesthetics of a story in people's minds.
Movies Tend Aesthetic Story
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.

Consumer Hate Clothes Mobile
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Cause Modern World Doubt
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I don't think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

Human Intelligence Unique About
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I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

Confusing Money Period Ability
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A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

Afraid Truth Toughness Play
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Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Associate Quality Reputation Better
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.

Foolish Wicked Profane Practice
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If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

Fear God Person Reason
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How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him.

Expect Prepare God Often
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.

Window Reality Effect Music
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My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?

Book Dance Mind Every
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Dream Judged Children Nation
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The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Primary Unhappiness Situation Thoughts
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I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

Hope Simplicity Sex Nonchallant
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I want to thank all the women who have worn my clothes, the famous and the unknown, who have been so faithful to me and given me so much joy.

Faithful Clothes Thank Been
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It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

Pathetic Physically Victimized Fashion
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Mind your own business, take care of your affairs, and don’t worry about other people so much.

People Business Affair Worry
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I had noticed men were much more confident in their clothes. So I sought through trouser suits, trench coats, tuxedos, and pea coats to give women the same confidence.

Clothes Coats Confidence Confident
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I just make it my business to get along with people so I can have fun. It’s that simple.

Business Along People Fun
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A visit to Marrakesh was a great shock to me. This city taught me color.

City Color Great Me
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I am very happy to design haute couture. It's a love story between couture and me.

Am Between Couture Design
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My classmates could see I was not similar. So they made me their scapegoat. They hit me or locked me in the toilets. During the break, I would take refuge in the chapel, or I would arrange to stay alone in the classroom.

Alone Arrange Break Chapel
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When I was young in the 1960s, all the world watched the youth. Everywhere was the sensation of wanting to break the chains but to do something beautiful. It is my privilege to have beauty always near me.

Always Beautiful Beauty Break
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I hate fashion. I don't have any fun doing it. A show terrifies me.

Any Doing Fashion Fun
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I've got to pay $5 for gas just like everybody else.

Else Everybody Everybody Else Gas
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
Anything Better Feel Good
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With rap, it's a funny thing. You can say things, and people can take 'em the way they wanna take 'em.

Funny Funny Thing People Rap
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When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

Bring Doing Got Just
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I never wanted to be a statistic. I never wanted to be that cat who tried and never made it.

Cat Made Never Statistic
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This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

Else Everybody Game Just
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