Derek Jarman Quotes
I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
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I knew from the first episode that 'Longmire' was something special - I met the writers/exec producers, read the script, and knew it was special, so to have the network and the studio and the fans get behind it in the way that they have has been really amazing.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.
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Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time most completely, and which is less benefited than most others by any acquaintance with science.
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Don't get me wrong. I want people to know who I am.
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Six years is a long time to play the same characters on the same show.
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Growing up, I saw my mother cry exactly once. The morning of her brother's funeral. One long tear ran down her cheek through her make up until she caught it near her mouth and patted it dry with a tissue she pulled from inside her sleeve.
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Change always takes time.
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I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.
