Poul Anderson Quotes
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons.
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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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I don't feel American. I do feel like a New Yorker. I think there's a real distinction there. A city allows you to become a citizen even when you're not a national.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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It's nice, because after you've worked with various directors and producers enough times, they start to know your voice and what you're capable of.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
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Doubts never end. If one doubt is removed, another takes its place. It is like removing the leaves of a tree one by one. Even if all the leaves are clipped off, new ones grow. The tree itself must be uprooted.
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It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibility for it, and speak up and say, This isn't right; this isn't me.' It's a great lesson, not just in wrestling but in life. If you're not feeling something that's true to your heart... everybody's gotta be true.
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'Harry Potter' gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.
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Every time guns fall into the wrong hands and are used to intimidate, injure, or murder women, it erodes the rights of responsible gun owners everywhere.
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Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.
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I am not in a hurry to do Hindi films. If it is destined, when it has to happen, it will.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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I'm sick of 'Wild Things.'
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I don't do negative things.
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The thing we long for, that we areFor one transcendent moment.
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Kurt had this dumb suicidal ideation - that's what I called it. I thought if we could live through this, we could live through anything.
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Even though they (women) grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.
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Too far a retreat from reality is insanity.
