Ella Maillart Quotes
One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
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It seems that in every culture, however tough life is and however impossible the conditions, there are some resilient human beings who find their way through, who survive and make something of themselves.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
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I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.
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One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible.
