Denise Morrison Quotes
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People ask me, 'Isn't it scary living on your own?' but in this industry, being at events, doing interviews, and doing promotion and constantly chatting about yourself, sometimes it's really nice to just sit in silence or take a day where you can sleep in until 3 P.M. and then stay up as late as you like.
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I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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I look for someone whose upbringing was somewhat similar to mine because they can understand me - love for the family and everything else. You see someone's relationship with their parents, and you realize what that person's going to be like as a parent.
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There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman.
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I think that has been a benefit to me because I think most people understand quilts and not a lot of people understand paintings. But yet they're looking at one.
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My artistic spirit is not nurtured by blogospheres.
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When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
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All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.
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Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background.
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Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.
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While American football is very structured and linear and static - where everyone lines up, and there's a burst, and it happens - soccer is like the cosmos. It's like constellations. It's bodies moving in space. It's a very spherical game.
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One year's poor form remains a blip but if it happens next year, you can say it's a trend.
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I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.
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A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
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It is in this sense that Franklin says, 'war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating.'
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War is the normal state of the people.
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I loved seeing my mom put her own twist on years-old family recipes and also create new dishes. This made me develop a passion for cooking at a young age and would eventually inspire me to prepare meals and host wonderful family dinners.
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While all men within our territories are protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of their consciences; it is rationally to be expected from them in return, that they will [demonstrate] the innocence of their lives and the beneficence of their actions; for no man, who is profligate in his morals, or a bad member of the civil community, can possibly be a true Christian, or a credit to his own religious society.
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As we move over to more of a mobile device-centric world... I think the interaction model with devices is going to be much more voice-based.
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Any objective observer will conclude that - based on her ideas and her leadership - Hillary Clinton must become the next president of the United States.
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I thought everybody got into rock 'n' roll because they didn't want to follow instructions.
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I know there are no sure bets or overnight miracles.
