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 feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.
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I try to do things I love or care about for some reason.
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Both 'The Daily Show' and 'The Colbert Report,' you're working with the best. When you work with the best, you have to raise your game. If you're working with people who are sub par, you're not forced to give 100 percent because you can get by on 80 percent.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!
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If the constitution goes, I go.
