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I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
People always say to me, 'You're really attractive - in an unusual way.' No one ever just says, 'You're attractive.'
My process seems to be unusual in the sense that I don't create worlds before characters. With me, character is king.
Getting the ideas are a struggle for me. I'm doing better now that I use the concentration tapes. More unusual ideas.
My whole history of being an actor is unusual and slightly disgraceful because it should be something you burn to do.
As a military pilot and a test pilot, handling unusual situations and aircraft malfunctions was part of the business.
As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.
I particularly like the bookshops at National Parks and battlefields; they often have very unusual and helpful things.
Every movie presents unusual challenges, and I like solving the problems with a combination of artwork and engineering.
I live in New York, so I'm used to the audiences that cheer and clap through a play. It is unusual for London audiences.
I guess growing up, it was pretty much a normal life, as I got older I used to get into some fights but nothing unusual.
My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.
Zimbabwe is an unusual case study in African colonialism in that it was invaded by a private company under Royal Charter.
Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!
I never thought it was unusual to write, and I've been writing or pretending to write since before I even started school.
I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.
It's not unusual for me to find that I'm the only female journalist of color in the front row during some of the briefings.
In my ministry, I've been fortunate to privately advise many national leaders, celebrities and people of unusual influence.
I am perhaps unusual in that I came to 'Doctor Who' through the numerous novelisations and not through the television show.
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.
Society's mores have changed, and what used to be thought not to be cruel and unusual now is thought to be cruel and unusual.
Americans are not used to being bombed in their beds, but if you come from anywhere outside America, it's not highly unusual.
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans
I've raised daughters who are English, and I'm American, so they're culturally different to me, which is an unusual situation.
The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
It's only the losers named 'Dave' that think having an unusual name is bad, and who cares what they think? They're named 'Dave.'
One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually .
In my dictionary, and everyone's dictionary in the 1970s, the word 'queer' did mean strange and unusual. There was no slur to it.
Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.
Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but a private man in public life.
'Que Sera Sera' had a very unusual rhythm. It was a challenge for me to pick up Rahman's beats and translate them into dance steps.
I want to explore new ideas and put myself in a place where I can finish a project that is more unusual or that doesn't seem doable.
I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.
I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.
I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.
I love the content that COLORS showcases, it is very unusual and pathbreaking and hence I try to be part of these shows in my own way.
One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win.
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.
I try to do more intelligent roles, unusual roles, and stronger women, and that's helped me a little bit with my casting opportunities.
My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.
The US is to an unusual extent a business-run society, where short-term concerns of profit and market share displace rational planning.
I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.
Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
I like Kylie Minogue sometimes - I like a lot of unusual stuff... I don't know - I like Justin Timberlake over Lady GaGa, just musically.
Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.