Kamisese Mara Quotes
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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The problem that I think is reasonable to assert about Fox and its coverage is that they make up stories out of whole cloth and then make a big deal out of them.
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
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My goal was always to be involved in music that would outlive me. And maybe that's actually happening.
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I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.
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My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
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I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
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I couldn't deal with a normal life.
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I was fourteen, watching 'The Princess Bride' for the 254321th time, captivated by Wesley and Inigo dueling on the cliff-top. I had never held a sword in my life, but I phoned my mum and said, 'I want to learn to fence!'
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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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People go to extraordinary lengths to get films made.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
