Dorothy Atkinson Quotes
If I have half an hour to spare, I just have to hit the shops. And I can get overexcited.
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Well, I'm a Texas boy, and we have denim in our blood.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Singing is something I can do, but it's not my first passion.
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To be honest, before I joined the industry, I knew very little about the fashion world, and I hardly knew any name brands. Probably because the price tags were a little too high, and home girl needed to work.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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Whoever has not begun the practice of prayer, I beg for the love of the Lord not to go without so great a good. There is nothing here to fear but only something to desire.
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Most people don't have that willingness to break bad habits. They have a lot of excuses and they talk like victims.
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The more understanding we have about what's going on in our own brain will just make us more capable in our own jobs, in telling our kids we love them, and living a fulfilling life.
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Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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Judges wear legal professionalism and precedent as a mantel that secures legitimacy for their decisions. It's how they distinguish themselves from politicians or administrative agencies, while wielding power that is sometimes much greater than those democratically accountable actors.
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I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.
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A great deal of energy is spent daily on pushing the Russian e-commerce boom along while managing all aspects of growth and development along the way.
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I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.
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I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
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If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you're completely different than them, ultimately they'll believe you.
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I think the New Bohemians' inability to say no was a big part of our problem.
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If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.
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When you start a collection, you have to push yourself to limits that may make you uncomfortable.
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Women can say anything they want to men, or blacks to whites, with impunity. But strong words in the other direction can bring down on students the wrath of the campus thought police - as well as punishments that can extend to suspension or expulsion.
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A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.
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If I have half an hour to spare, I just have to hit the shops. And I can get overexcited.
