Kathleen Troia McFarland Quotes
While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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I think people appreciate honesty.
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To understand the hidden secret of the modern industrial world in which I find myself, I have to return to another world. That world is at once wartime Nice and the plantation - the sugar isles on which Europe's prosperity was built.
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The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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I never pile a plate to the point where it overflows. I'd rather have a small plate with small portions and then get up for more if I'm still hungry.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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If I didn't have a girlfriend, I'd have 10 girls at the studio, and they would make me not rap.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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The real purpose of welfare is to get rid of poor people entirely. Everybody knows welfare has bad effects; that's the point.
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The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
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I worry that some politicians still think we are living in the 1950s where the man is the main breadwinner and the woman works for pin money. Actually, most families where there are two parents depend on two incomes to get by.
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I work very fast, keeping the ideas flowing but making sure they come out the way I intended.
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I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.
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Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?
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My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.
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My characters are always unlucky in love. It's annoying, but perhaps there is something in me that is suited to characters that have a darkness. Maybe it's why I play such damaged people when I'm not particularly damaged myself, I would say.
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I'd like to avoid the environmental apocalypse if I could. Zombies, robots - I don't know - I'd probably do alright hidden in the middle of the herd and sacrificing people to keep myself alive, but where you gonna hide when all the food is gone?
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I learned a lot from Arthur Rimbaud. People talk about how he wanted to be a seer and do that through the derangement of the senses. What they forget was that he also advocated, sternly and austerely, that one must be able to go through all that - and then articulate it.
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While President Putin is busy redrawing the map of Europe, President Obama is busy filling out his brackets.
