Martha MacIsaac Quotes
Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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I got no hate in me.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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There was no theater in my high school. I think even our art program was cut - it was so bad. I didn't even know that was a possibility in college or in high school; I hadn't even thought of it. It was pretty negligent. My father has run a bulldozer all of his life, and my mom is in real estate.
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If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history and Russian history and Australian history, we're teaching kids that they are divided into tribes. And we're failing to teach them that we also, as human beings, share problems that we need to work together with.
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I'll start with small things.
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The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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Here's a trick to giving the birds-and-bees talk: You gotta do it in a car, so they can't escape. That's what all my girlfriends' parents did.
