Polly Berrien Berends Quotes
We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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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 believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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Socialism is simply Communism for people without the testosterone to man the barricades.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I had spent my childhood making up adventures in my head. Then I realized when I went to acting school that there were adventures written down, and you could learn lines, and you could do the adventures for real, not just in your head.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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To me, 'Unforgiven' is one of the best films ever made. Aside from the fact it takes the genre and kicks it between its legs, it's this fascinating deconstruction of the myth of the West.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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I think I am difficult to satisfy, because when I win something, I'm already thinking about the next step, and that is maybe a problem for me. I'm not enjoying the moment. I'm already on the mission to win the next trophy.
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But if kids take up things like hockey and football they will go back to it.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.
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There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
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I have no cynicism at all.
Antony Sher
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May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.
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'Rise Up' is definitely my baby. I think it was a gift because, you know, it's like God just spoke to me and wrote that song. It's very powerful.
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...I haven't seen so many dirty snouts, and slimy arseholes crammed into such a small space since I last looked inside a sausage.
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Also, I gained lots of weight between ages 18-20 because I was drinking alcohol at night. Alcohol has lots of calories and that does not help.
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We can see that the baby is as much an instrument of nourishment for us as we are for him.
