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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes Quotes
The exceptions that shape the rule.
"Sometimes" is the hinge word in this collection, softening bigger claims into honest exceptions — including a candid look at why people take jobs in law enforcement despite the risks. For quotes on feeling and mood, see Feel quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I were at a bookstore, I'd be reading. Sometimes I have some music on, but usually I like it quiet.
- Nov 07, 2020
My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't.
- Gym
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that has been the most beneficial for me in real life is that I've been able to really become stronger physically, and so I try to get to the gym at least - while I'm working, it's hard sometimes.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can do a 'Maxim' shoot and be super sexy, but I'm also just a 21-year-old girl, and I look 17 sometimes.
- Big Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes if I have a big enough purse I'll bring my perfume or something. Right now I really like Beaute, it's by Johan B. and it's really nice, so I like that.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are so many little places I want to play, sometimes weird places I think would be fun to play... a bar that's half full.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am extremely content in my life - sometimes to the point where I really should find something to moan about!
- Legal
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- Nov 07, 2020
We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Britain I'm sometimes regarded as a suspiciously Europeanized writer, who has this rather dubious French influence.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020