Mary Halvorson Quotes
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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.
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I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
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That's definitely something I've experienced my whole life - people thinking one thing and then discovering that I'm not, hopefully. So I relate to having to fight that and claim my own identity, when people are trying to throw different ones at me.
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The Jewish people and the Negro people both know the meaning of Nordic supremacy. We have both looked into the eyes of terror.
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I've done a lot of other shows in the U.S. that have been great, but I knew that 'Roadies' was something special. I feel very, very fortunate.
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For my body, I like high-waisted jeans because they make your leg look longer and hides this extra thing on my stomach. You can eat extra food with it because it hides, and I like to tuck in my t-shirts.
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'FlashForward' was a dream come true. I had auditioned for David Goyer for 'Blade: Trinity' and didn't get the part, but I guess he became a fan.
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Yesh Atid is a Jewish, religious-secular party. Our DNA is center - both Left and Right. The difference between center-left and center-right is more emotional and hereditary than having to do with what people think about the Palestinians.
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The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.
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Pretend hard enough and maybe it will go away.
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I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.
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She ain't into wine and rosesBeer just makes her turn up her nose andShe can't stand the thought of sipping champagneNo Cuervo gold margaritasJust ain't enough good burn in tequilaShe needs somethin' with a little more edgeAnd a little more painShe's my little whiskey girl, she's my little whiskey girlMy ragged on the edges girl, ah but I like em rough.
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In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
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The 'Bourne' movies are great in their own ways; it introduces a whole other sort of allegory about the Bush years. The secrecy and the threats of a big global organization.
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They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.
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If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.
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Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we encounter shame, history, ruin, conflicting stories, and wounds badly healed; in short, the South.
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I've never done fashion school or anything like that. But I have good instincts.
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I don't think I'm curvaceous. It's simply that most other actresses are really, stupidly tiny.
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I think jazz guitar isn't very ladylike in general. Not that it shouldn't be.
