Mary Pope Osborne Quotes
When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.
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I want to thank all of the fans and media who made playing in the NFL such a wonderful experience. I have had the pleasure of meeting many of them.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Our economy's growth functions by inciting us to produce more and more with each passing year. In turn, we require cultural forms to enable us to sort through the glut, and our rituals are once again directed towards the immaterial, towards quality and not quantity.
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I realized in the early days I just didn't edit at all. But I think you become a little more cagey with your lyrics when you know more people are going to hear them and make assumptions about you as a person. Realizing that, you want to be a little more opaque.
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I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.
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It's funny. Of all the jobs I've been ambitious for, this is one that never crossed my mind.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
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I don't know if I'm able to play a cop for the rest of my life.
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I always believed in my characters. I lived them.
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I love actors, and I love projects that give them space and room, and I aim for these projects where the characters are that important.
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My responsibility is to make judgments about hard, complex issues that I believe to be right.
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I still believe in marriage.
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I think if we're going to live in this - in this world - in this technological world where information can be disseminated so quickly, we have to be serious and take firm, strong action against those who are putting American lives at risk. Because this will put people's lives at risk.
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
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When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.
