Mary Hansen Quotes
I would go and see loads of films all in one go and they'd start to merge together. It was a bit sad, really. I'd have to see it again.
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I miss having my mom and close friends around. Thank God for Skype and Face-Time, which keep me connected... but interacting digitally can't come close to the feeling of being hugged by my mom or getting together for a meal with my friends on the same table.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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Sometimes I think people get into trouble because they can't say what they want to.
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Sometimes I like to watch TV, though I never get to watch any of the shows in real time. I'm a fan of 'Downton Abbey,' 'Boardwalk Empire,' and 'Boss.' There's a British series called 'Luther,' but in England, they think a series means four episodes. And I like 'Mad Men.' Otherwise, it's always good to unwind with a book.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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I don't know that much about who directs what movies, but I'm definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.
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Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
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How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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I don't crave Hollywood.
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Saddam Hussein played a terrible game of trying to deceive the world that he had weapons of mass destruction. Everyone bought it. The United States called him on his braggadocio, and we are all paying for the results - especially the American taxpayer.
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If anyone here is secretly dreaming of making the Olympics, I can tell you exactly how to do it, two words: Sustained Obsession. The obsession isn't so hard. But keeping it sustained is a tough nut to crack. A heart-felt enemy can go a long way to sustaining your obsession. Love your enemy.
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Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.
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Oh yeah, we all write. That's what's great about when you have basics in piano.
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Burke is so great because, almost alone in England, he brings thought to bear upon politics, he saturates politics with thought.
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I would go and see loads of films all in one go and they'd start to merge together. It was a bit sad, really. I'd have to see it again.
