Betty Hill Quotes
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
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If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.
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When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.
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My mother was a trained nurse, and she'd tell me that patients would fight as they were administered anaesthetic, grappling to get the gas mask off their face.
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I was having serious issues with becoming a diabetic.
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I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.
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Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
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That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.
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I think it's critical in any character you play that it really is about reacting instead of acting. You can always tell when a person is acting.
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I think I am the same kind of person I would have been if I wasn't an actor. I am not a robot.
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Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
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And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
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Every day, I kind of have in my brain a few slots of what I want to do. Like school, sleep, homework, 'Rookie,' hanging out with friends, mindless relaxation time, and then trying to do my own creative things.
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The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.
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That's what we really mean by being feared on the football field. And not actually the player that fears him, it's the offensive coordinator that fears him or the running backs coach.
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Three days in a city now and I'm quite flipped. There's too much noise. I just can't do with it.
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Power never takes two weeks off. Power takes long weekends.
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Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.
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The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'
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I'm a member of the US committee o the United Nations.
