Donna McKechnie Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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One of the most widely read novels by a black American is Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man.' It is his masterwork - it won the National Book Award in 1953 and catapulted my man to the highest levels of literary esteem.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.
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Like every girl, we don't talk about our surgeries.
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I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.
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I did 'Bridge to Terabithia' when I was around 6 years old, but for my first movie, I was 5.
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All I ever wanted to do was be able to pay my rent.
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People often confuse visibility with a lot of other things. Sometimes I become a proxy for things that just aren't true about me. People will say, 'DeRay got millions of dollars in grants.' That's just not true... I'm broke.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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Whenever you do a show, there are happy reunions of people; it's very familial.
