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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Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.
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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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They didn't really check it . . . It was just purposeless.
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The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of the face is dry and wrinkled and generally pale. The hairs on the head and the body are white. The back is bent, and the gait is slow and laborious, whilst the memory is weak. Such are the most familiar traits of old age.
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Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
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A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those that form the system of physical science, even in those branches like astronomy that seem to approximate mathematical certainty. He cherished this belief, for it led to the consoling hope that humanity would inevitably make progress toward a state of happiness and improved character even as it has already done in its knowledge of the truth.
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My faith is certainly not as stable or constant as I’d like it to be. I’m a highly emotional person and sometimes allow my emotions to affect how I feel about God or how I trust him.
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At this point I ceased argument with Lt. Goforth and shot him in the belly.
