Emily Carr Quotes
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
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The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that made me want to do 'The Stand.' The more you can do, the better, and I've been known as a character actor.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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I've never thought in terms of 'men do this' and 'women do that.'
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
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We book our exports forward for more than a year, and so we have a fixed rate. We do not get the spot rate that we see in the market every day.
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During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
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I don't really look back or forward too much. That's not to say I live in the moment, because I struggle with that as well.
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
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I would have 55 dogs if I could. I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter.
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Then I turned round and saw the British Union Jack under which I had been sitting and it was then that I realised that my poor country, India, did not even have a flag of her own - and it was this that triggered off my complete breakdown.
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…the British. Haughty, white, fat, ugly, by no means sympathique, cold…
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'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.
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The theory of isolation of certain tasks in certain hemispheres of the brain suggests I shouldn't even be able to speak, never mind write.
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When you torture a person for long periods you might get a very passionate human rights defender but most probably you will get a beast whose only concern is to seek his revenge in the best way possible.
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Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
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I was, by divine grace, enabled to bring all my sins and all my sorrows and lay them at the feet of Jesus, and to receive the blessed assurance that He had accepted me, all sinful and polluted as I was.
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
