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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My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.
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I just couldn't sit through Harold and Maude one more time, ... Diane has really old tastes for a woman her age.
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
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Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
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How to become a millionaire? Become a billionaire first.
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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.
