"Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isnâ€™t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes superfluous in an instant, shadowed instantaneously by the things you really need, and none of them answerable by Google."

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Source : Ali Smith (2011). “There but for the”, p.100, Penguin UK

Ali Smith

#Google Quotes #Promise Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Just because you want to be glamorous, don't be a sheep about your eye makeup.”
“My expertise is running businesses.”
“Candid and searing, Deborah Jiang Steinâ€™s memoir is a remarkable story about identity, lost and found, and about the authorâ€™s journey to reclaimâ€”and celebrateâ€”that most primal of relationships, the one between mother and child. I dare you to read this book without crying.”
“I hate it when people say, "Oh, women are just jealous." I'm not jealous, but I do beat myself up about what I haven't accomplished in my own life yet - and when you meet a woman who has accomplished what you expect to achieve, and she's also dating your ex, of course it's hard!”
“For Twilight, I wasn't thinking it was going to be a crazy success, or anything. It had been rejected by all the major studios. Nobody wanted to make it and they didn't think it would make any money, but I read the book and I thought, "Wow, I want to capture that feeling of just being crazy in love. I wonder if I can do that in a film." That was my challenge.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Today I divide my day between being actor, producer and distributor, and the monotony is broken.”
“I'm a crack shot and I've won medals for shooting. But I don't think I could shoot a person.”
“I'm still always a country girl from New Zealand.”

Source : Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.

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