Jacques Derrida Quotes
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
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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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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.
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If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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Just because you have star power and a huge marketing budget, you can see from some professional web series, it doesn't equal views.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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I wasn't a great debater.
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Chermoula is a potent North African spice paste that is ideal for smearing on your favourite vegetables for roasting.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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I have always been fascinated by fashion. I never had any interest in waiting tables or bar-tending, so retail was sort of my best option.
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Ah! Those strange people who have the courage to be unhappy! Are they unhappy, by the way?
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I was glad I did, except when I was wandering around in my real life with this big red Afro. I looked like Ronald McDonald.
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The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.
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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.
