Emily Dickinson Quotes
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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Once I actually get in the studio and I start working, I'm fine, but it's just getting there and these hours of torment with myself and self doubt, thinking 'I'm useless' and 'Who am I, conning myself into thinking I can do it again.'
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Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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I do not want to do a role which is similar to the previous one or the concept and the genre.
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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
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The Nobel Peace Prize has always been a joke - albeit a grim one. Alfred Bernhard Nobel famously invented dynamite and felt sorry about it.
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I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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Even though it's a shortened format of the game, Twenty20 allows people with different skills to play in a team and play their specific roles. Obviously there's not too much time to waste balls, but if you look at guys who play well in the top six, they have a fairly decent amount of good cricketing ability.
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I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!
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Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people. They gain a lot of compassion, and it's easier to accept their flaws.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.
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I'm free of hypochondria-- although I've got everything else.
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It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.
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Until you have loved, you cannot become yourself.
