Mary Barnett Gilson Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good intentions, and if you are kind to people, I believe that good things happen to you.
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We need to be very well aware of the fact that China and Russia are using technology to attack us, just as ISIS is using technology to recruit those who would murder American citizens.
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When I represent Team GB, I never give less than 100 per cent. It is an absolute honour.
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I think social media is good for promotion, stuff like that, but people are so negative. People are too negative. If you read the comments, it's just too negative.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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Any idealism is a proper subject for art.
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I love to tease men with my legs.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
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I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitching and acting funny.
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I write my music.
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People get married when they're 18 and spend their whole lives together. I think their greatest fear is that someone will see it as a fling because they were young and it didn't mean anything.
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I wrote for magazines. I wrote adventure stuff, I wrote for the 'National Enquirer,' I wrote advertising copy for cemeteries.
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Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold, letting go of results, and trusting the direction of Life’s current.
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All taboos serve different human interests by avoiding those things which threaten to cause offence or distress
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One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'
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There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may account for my fondness for doing different voices.
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When you're doing movies, you're traveling all over the world and you really can't be home.
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The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.
