Mirriam Johnson (Jessi Colter) Quotes
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
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Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.
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What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.
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I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.
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I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
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Anything with a good story and characters I think would be great.
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Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
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My blood runs cold when I hear the 'great news' that we have found a marker for the Down's syndrome gene, which means we can identify it more easily. Why is that good news? It's only good news if you're going to terminate.
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Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
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A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
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I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.
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When you have a brilliant sun, which is a source of vision, the light from the sun shines through every window of the house, and the brightness of its light inspires you to open all the curtains. In the vision of the Great Eastern Sun, no human being is a lost cause.
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To what extent has each one of us contributed to the rise in violence and hatred?
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I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
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I've got a waistline to develop.
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I was born at the right time. I was a freak - the only young player when darts took off in the 1970s.
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Mother was a great force in her area of evangelism.
