Victoria Secunda Quotes
It isn't just the physical presence of the father that matters- it's his engagement and involvement. An emotionally remote or rejecting or actively punitive father leads to girls' feeling pretty apprehensive around men.
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Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!
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There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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There is simply no room for racial, hurtful language spoken to your colleagues or anyone else.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dead in a week.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed.
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Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.
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Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
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I want to, at the end of the day, be able to say, 'I am a runner.'
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I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
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I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
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I've lived a very colorful life, and I've said some things, But not once have I taken them back, and I've never apologized for them - and I won't.
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The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.
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'East of Eden' is an important story for me. It's about a kid that's misunderstood and feels like he's not loved by his father. It's a very father-son kind of story, and it's not until the end that they sort of make up. I like that because every boy has trouble with his father, so it's very relatable.
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The short story is kind of a precision tool. It allows me a certain type of freedom to go in and out of the American landscape, without having to commit myself to a full-length novel. I find a lot of novels out there very boring.
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Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought.
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It isn't just the physical presence of the father that matters- it's his engagement and involvement. An emotionally remote or rejecting or actively punitive father leads to girls' feeling pretty apprehensive around men.
