Douglas Hurd Quotes
There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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It was always my dream to be part of MTV and make history.
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I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Usually Mexico, or always Mexico has defended itself and its territory.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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Just because I don't show six-pack abs doesn't mean that I don't have them.
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I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
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I naturally favour a clean, healthy diet. A salad sandwich is one of my favourite meals!
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Our communities are being destroyed by racial tension - and we're too polite to talk about it.
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Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between.
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I want to come back in 2017 if things work well.
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I dream pretty big, but truly had no idea my life could be this awesome. I am the luckiest girl in the world, without question!
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The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
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I think the Con-Con issue is really diversionary. I've always been against Con-Con, from the very first the time the idea was raised. Everybody knows that.
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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.
