Mary Cheney Quotes
After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
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A lot of people don't get second chances.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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I've got an idea for a modern day faerie tale that I think would made a great short novel. But I just don't have the time to work on it right now. I'm way too busy with the 'Kingkiller Chronicles' and being a new dad.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Since I was 17, I had been just making records and promoting them.
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I drink Diet Coke from the minute I get up to the minute I go to bed.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.
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I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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England and Denmark have a sense of irony and a darker sense of humour that you don't necessarily find in Germany and Sweden.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?
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We are going to have to make some very difficult choices, because state government cannot continue to spend more than it takes in.
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We're a very active family, and I like everything in its place. I'm all about designing every little space. It will help me in the business of being a mom. Every single day is so crazy with my work that I just need to be able to come home and do that business as efficiently as I try to do my professional work.
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I don't believe in the afterlife.
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I choose work with the people I like to work with.
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Nuclear countries are those countries that are big and powerful. It is difficult to criticize them and try to lead them onto a humanitarian path. But we can only do what we can and appeal to their sense of reason.
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For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.
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If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.
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After being sworn in to office, vice presidents have usually been relegated to the sidelines, where they just don't get to do very much.
