Kenneth Noland Quotes
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There definitely will be flying cars, but whether there'll be flying cars for most people to use, it'll probably take a long time to straighten everything out, all the rules and hassles. It'll take a while to figure out how to keep people from crashing into each other.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.
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I live in a little suburb close to Kansas City called Prairie Village, where there's a feeling of everybody knowing everybody else. I think the same thing is true of New York City, by the way.
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Yeah, right. I mean, he criticises everybody in the media, then the first thing he does when he finishes is he goes to work for the media. Thompson, too. Hypocritical.
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My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind.
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I'm happy with the coach we have. I think any one of the ones I asked them to consider would've been good.
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
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I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.
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There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.
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When I was younger, I didn't have that type of person that I could look up to and be like, 'OK, this is someone who dresses like me and I relate to.' I didn't have that growing up, so to give that opportunity to a younger generation of women - and not just Somali women, but anyone who feels different - that means a lot to me.
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
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When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort of compelled to do it, but at the same time, it's so frightening. But I think that the things that frighten me the most in life are the things I should be doing.
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Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster and faster.
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
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The claim that SpongeBob makes your child dumber is a causal claim. If you do X, Y will happen. To prove that, you'd have to show that if you forced the children in the no-TV households to watch SpongeBob and changed nothing else about their lives, they would do worse in school.
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If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.
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The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.
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Context begins with other artists - seniors and mentors.
