Poppy Montgomery Quotes
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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I've had about 140 albums released, and I've done everything I wanted to do.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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Too many times, the international community has not prepared the post-conflict period in time.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
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As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
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Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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I often think you bring unhappiness on yourself, because if you don't like yourself very much, you allow yourself to be influenced by people who reinforce that.
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I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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In the modern university, no act of good teaching goes unpunished.
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Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.
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When I get it into my head that I want to do something, I do it.
