Chrystia Freeland Quotes
If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
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Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I never know what defines you as being posh. I went to a posh school, definitely.
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The body should be reconfigured by the clothes, never again the other way round.
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Maybe I will end up in the movies.
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The word impossible is not French.
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High school and college were my punk, formative years. I was playing hardcore, learning to be a musician. In bands, you tour, but you're paid nothing; you're playing to 50 people in a basement, sleeping in a van, and you love it.
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I've got so many big gains to make in the javelin and the shot put. I know I'm not going to be winning the field in those events, but I need to do myself justice.
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If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.
