Marjorie Holmes Quotes
What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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When I'm not painting, I'm Oujia-boarding with my photos. I'll sort through my pictures, put them in different folders, and come back months later to one in particular and try to figure out why I took it.
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Political leaders are expert at saying nothing.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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I just wanted to defend football, which is not always easy to do. Those of us who have been in the sport so many years now realise we must protect it and look after it. I was speaking about football, what it means. It is our profession, it has been our lives, and we must take care of it a little.
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Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs.
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Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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Since space is continuous, it follows that there must be an immediate community of feeling between parts of mind infinitesimally close together. Without this, I believe it would have been impossible for any co-ordination to be established in the action of the nerve-matter of one brain.
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What feeling is so nice as a child's hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.
