Abigail Breslin Quotes
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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All over the world, people are looking at India and saying 'wow', and that's because we have begun to say 'wow' ourselves.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
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I don't know what love means.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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I trust every lead in every department. All of the teams are phenomenal artists. All I need to tell them is why to do something, not how to do something.
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When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer.
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I'm interested in flawed protagonists. I was raised on them.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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I first started asking big questions when I was 12, and by big questions, I mean, 'Why are we here? What is this business? We're alive for a few short decades and then poof, we're out of here.'
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
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The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
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What's my favourite food? One you order out.
