Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes
We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
Quotes to Explore
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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My favourite moments at Dreamforce are when people come up and thank me randomly. It's a selfish time for me, as I get lots of positive feedback.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
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Creativity can only be anarchic, capitalist, Darwinian.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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My mother was a cleaning lady all her life.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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I believe in the power of weakness.
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Secrets make for good drama, and revealing the hidden truths and contradictions of life is, for me, one of the most exciting aspects of making movies.
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I think the play actually became bigger than me. No pun intended.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.
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My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.
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And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?
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I have compassion, I've told you people that over and over again. Enforcing the law overrides my compassion.
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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
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We need to stop talking and start acting, and I am more than eager to be part of that change.
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We are here, not because we are law-breakers; we are here in our efforts to become law-makers.
