James Hilton Quotes
When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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Truth comes to us mediated by human love.
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I think in a lot of situations I had got songs stolen from me, or treated badly.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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It used to break my heart that I didn't get to start in varsity soccer!
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I had the strength and the finesse there and put it all together.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him, and he had very much already become Stanley Kubrick by the time the film started.
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There's a place for R&B in the U.K. industry - a huge market. I hope that 'Boo'd Up' can be a testament to the fact. Sometimes, it takes you moving outside the box to prove that it can be done.
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The more we exile ourselves from nature, the more we crave its miracle waters.
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When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass like lazy cattle moving across a landscape.
