Mirriam Johnson (Jessi Colter) Quotes
I'm having a good time watching Shooter. He's a good kid. He's been a good son to me. He has never failed.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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When you work in such a surreal environment as movies, just listening to some tunes or hanging out with friends is what you crave. Even time alone.
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I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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When I work with other people, I don't have to do that - it's because I love to do it and I want to do it.
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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What I love about Tadashi is that he isn't a designer that designs only for a double-zero. He designs for double-Ds, you know? Women of all shapes and sizes can wear him.
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I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
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The first time I ever screamed at someone was in a scene, and I'd never screamed at someone in my life.
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In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
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Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.
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Here is the crisis of the times as I see it: We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means - what it bestows on us - the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency.
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I'm having a good time watching Shooter. He's a good kid. He's been a good son to me. He has never failed.
