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Helena Bonham Carter Quotes

If you're a queen, you're powerless, so I'd probably demote myself and go shopping.

Helena Bonham Carter

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: british
Birth: May 26, 1966

Topics

Myself Queen Shopping You Go

I've played guitar in so many different styles, and I want to revisit them all.

Guitar Want Different Many Revisit

There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior.

Challenge Think Feel You Perfect

I played the piano as a boy for six years, from the time I was six to 12 years old. My piano lessons ended when my father died because our family had no more money. I used to have a mestiza teacher. She'd come once a week to teach me piano lessons, and she'd bribe me each time with an apple; otherwise, I wouldn't play.

Family Father Teacher Time Money Me

No perfectionist has ever met his own benchmarks, and no one so famished for admiration has ever received enough of it.

Enough Own Admiration Perfectionist

I am better at math than spelling.

I Am Better Math Spelling Than Am

I think I'm more marketing- and sales-oriented than others, and the notion of selling books continues to interest me.

Me Think Marketing Selling Others

The first time I dedicated myself to resurrecting and preserving somebody's memories was with my great-uncle. I knew he was going to die in the next few years, and I had grown up listening to all his stories about people who had been trapped or chased by the Nazis. I began to record them.

Memories Time Myself People Die Up

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.

Enemies Poison Saw Chinese Many

Southeast Asia is an area in which there is a form of Islam which is both devout and progressive, and therefore to be supported. It's an area in which I see a congruence of American interests and local interests: to have tolerant societies and become more prosperous.

Dennis C. Blair

American Islam Become More See Asia

I haven't really given much thought to the whole 'working mother' thing.

Mother Thought Working Whole Much

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

Time Words Story Short You Write

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Publilius Syrus

Learn You See Avoid Should Calamity

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