Charles Kennedy Quotes
We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.
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We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I believe that acting in any medium is the same thing, it's discovering the truth in where you are.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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I always say show me a storyteller who doesn't embellish, and I'll show you a bad one.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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The strange thing is, no matter what, when you become some kind of public figure, you have your go-to answers for all scenarios and instances.
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Until I got 'Full Metal Jacket,' I was doing Off-Off-Broadway plays with three people in the audience.
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I want to remind you today that the greatest Artist of all time created you. He dreamed about you long before you were born, before a single brushstroke of your life took place.
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As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.
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I use only essential oils for perfumes.
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I want to act, I want to write, and I need to follow good directors.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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We actually believe in hope. But hope requires purpose. And purpose requires direction.
