Candice Swanepoel Quotes

At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'

Candice Swanepoel

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SchoolMeLookSayGotBecause

I wanted to emulate music from America - young punks playing rock n' roll is what it was. I read part of Keith Richards' autobiography, and it was totally parallel with me, learning from American records.

Jimmy Page

LearningMusicMeAmericanAmerica

I think there are some writers - like, if you read Kerouac, I think you probably need to take a little break before you sit down to the typewriter because he's the type of writer whose voice infects you.

John Darnielle

VoiceThinkYouDownNeedBreak

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

John Keats

Valentine's DayYouNewAlwaysLast

People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.

Robert Mugabe

PeopleFreeYouGoKnowVote

It's easy to make a cue last a lifetime. Don't boil it or freeze it in the trunk of a car. Don't lean it against a wall for years. If you lose a game to a complete idiot, hit the edge of the table in anger with something other than your cue.

Robert Byrne

CarAngerGameIdiotYouLose

Sometimes you have to keep things very close to your own chest in your life, or this life.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

LifeYouSometimesOwnThingsKeep

There's no book to figure out how not to become a victim of police brutality.

Mike Colter

PoliceBookBecomeVictimOutHow

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

Colm Toibin

WorkSufferingMeWritingStrongUp

I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me.

Clara Hughes

EyesMyselfExcellencePeopleMe

I think diversity and having women and people of color in key positions is really important.

Bozoma Saint John

WomenDiversityPeopleThinkKey

I think writers need windows on a view to remind them that a whole world is out there, not the minutiae with which they might be dealing on a close scale.

Anne McCaffrey

WorldThinkViewWindowsNeedOut

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

Ali Smith

GreatWordsSpaceYouMoveLike

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