Drummond Money-Coutts Quotes
I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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I've pretty much behaved like a knucklehead my entire life.
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Being at school, being who I am, being an athlete, it was hard to find people like me. There's not many athletes that can be at my level. That was kind of hard finding people who love something so much they want to keep on doing it.
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
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At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.
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At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.
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I'm Angelina Jolie's sidekick in 'Maleficent'. It's cool.
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I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.
