Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman) Quotes
I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
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Lying has a kind of respect and reverence with it. We pay a person the compliment of acknowledging his superiority whenever we lie to him.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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My slogan is I'm the least qualified guy for the job, but I'd probably do the best job.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.
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I wrote my first piano piece when I was in 4th grade.
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Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.
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As cliched as it sounds, I'm taking every day as it comes.
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My brother was an improviser. He's now a lobbyist, but he used to perform improv in the city when he was in high school, and one of the funniest guys I know to this day.
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Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.
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I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving.
