Marsha Thomason Quotes
I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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The imagination is man's power over nature.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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Success can allow you to try for greatness, can give you an opportunity to take a chance on something. I'm very blessed to have the success that I've had, and that's given me so many opportunities to work on being great.
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I have differences of opinion within my own family, an Irish Catholic family. So, I do respect those that disagree.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.
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I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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A lot of people say that comedy doesn't travel well. I found it very accessible.
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For me, trying to articulate the world to help people see it in a way they haven't seen it before is hugely important. Sometimes, you have to take something that is completely inexplicable and say, 'Look, here is the beating heart of something you must understand.'
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If you walk into somebody's office with your hair uncombed and a pick in the back, and your shoes untied, and your pants half down, tattoos up and down your arms and on your neck, and you wonder why somebody won't hire you? They don't hire you 'cause you look like you're crazy!
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My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.
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I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.
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I enjoy the reaction I get in the U.S.A. when people discover I have an English accent. They don't expect that, and it's kind of a kick.
