Jessie Buckley Quotes
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and went to the real estate office and bought it. It's the best $65,000 I've ever spent. My family camp on it and we have great times there.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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My only thought about Margaret Thatcher is the same one I had about Ronald Reagan. I hated a lot of what they did, but once in a while a country just needs a change.
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The fact is fiction is always a representation of life, sometimes the lives of famous people.
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I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
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There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.
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Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people.
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The Joker was Batman's nemesis, but-ironically-his archenemy was Superman, since Superman made Batman entirely mortal and generally nonessential. Nobody likes to admit this, but Batman fucking hated Superman; Superman is the reason Batman became an alcoholic.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. It is hard to show a pimple.
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He could leap the corral,If he roseTo his full height;He could splinter the fencing light,With three blowsOf his porcelain hoofs in flight - If he chose.He could shatter his prison wall,Could escape them all - If he rose,If he chose.
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Low-end disruption occurs when the rate at which products improve exceeds the rate at which customers can adopt the new performance.
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I love feeling the crispness of fall and the sensuality of spring.
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The United States Supreme Court has voted 6-3 that voter photo ID is constitutional.
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The employer class is less indispensable in the modern organization of industries because the laboring men themselves possess sufficient intelligence to organize into co-operative relation and enjoy the entire benefits of their own labor.
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This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.
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I do believe that a law-abiding citizen that is armed, that's out in public, will keep himself, his staff, and, in some cases, the public safe.
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With regards to pressure, you can't be too conscious of it.
