C. J. Cherryh Quotes
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I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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I auditioned for this agency. I got an advertisement first, and then something else, which I got fired from. It was soul-destroying. And then the next thing I got, I thought was going to be my big break, and they cut the role. It was only the year that I started auditioning for 'Star Wars' when I really started getting roles.
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My role as Ewan McGregor's girlfriend in the film 'Incendiary' ended up on the cutting-room floor, but at least I had two brilliant days of acting with Ewan.
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I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.
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People imagine that actors are being offered everything and you are not. So things come in and sometimes there are things that I want and can't get a meeting on, or go to a different actors.
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Comedy has become, I think, a very important branch of public intellectualism. But it still ain't Washington.
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And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home plate, swinging the bat, fielding a ground ball. There's some dedication in it, some love you've got to put into this work.
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I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.
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I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.
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In the absence of a Congress ready to act to reduce gun violence, we will keep working to create a different Congress.
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There are over 200 million illiterate women in India. This low literacy negatively impacts not just their lives but also their families' and the country's economic development. A girl's lack of education also has a negative impact on the health and well-being of her children.
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Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
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People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth.
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I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.
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Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
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Catholicism is a religion of idols.
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Give time for a worthy cause (with eagerness) - you will be worthy and richly rewarded.
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Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. … It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It's a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.
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All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.
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I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.
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We all wish we were better. I wish I were a better artist, wish I were a kinder person, wish I were all kinds of things. But we're stuck with ourselves. I have good friends. And that in itself convinces me that I deserve to live.
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At this point I ceased argument with Lt. Goforth and shot him in the belly.
