Bev Perdue Quotes
I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
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A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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Every historian with professional standards speaks or writes what he believes to be true.
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World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in. I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death. I did fiddle with lots of maps for 'Glass Sword,' as the second installment sees Mare, Cal and company traveling throughout their country, and that's always fun for me.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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I feel passionately that the opportunities I have had should be available to everyone.
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The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.
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I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.
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To us, with our broader outlook, our more complicated interests, our more elusive moods, their small bright world is apt to seem uninteresting and out of date, unless we spend some patient sympathy in the discovery of the real charm and the real beauty that it contains.
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Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.
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I've always been very direct and have told the truth and have been very willing to stand up and speak out.
