Betty Gilpin Quotes
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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I keep everything that's private private.
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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
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I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
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Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
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I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.
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In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.
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It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
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Even 'Gone With the Wind' had a shocking, cold-blooded murder.
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Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting: They’re brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.
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It's no trick loving somebody at their best. Love is loving them at their worst.
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The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.
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A man must at times be hard as nails: willing to face up to the truth about himself, and about the woman he loves, refusing compromise when compromise is wrong. But he must also be tender. No weapon will breach the armor of a woman's resentment like tenderness.
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Most entrepreneurial ideas will sound crazy, stupid and uneconomic, and then they’ll turn out to be right.
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You know, you almost got to be a homosexual to be recognized in the entertainment industry anymore. Ellen Degeneres
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Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.
