Jill Robinson Quotes
The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
Jill Robinson
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
Paddy Considine
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
Laura Robson
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
Eden Riegel
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
Laura Mvula
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
Taraji P. Henson
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
Washed Out
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
Rachel Stevens
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You can be in the shape of your life, and then injury strikes. So you have to grab your opportunities.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
Warren Christopher
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Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.
Daley Thompson
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
Vincent Cassel
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I wrote a techno song about the four things I love in Germany to make myself happy, which are my grandfather, my two poodle pets, bread, and a strange but delicious Turkish dish called Doener Kebab.
Flula Borg
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I do sit-ups and push-ups at home, and that's about it. I have a gym card, but I never go there. It's a front. I pay for the membership every couple of years, thinking I'll be embarrassed enough to go. But every time I go, there's like people twice my age that look twice as good!
Rachael Ray
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Every time a bookseller hands a child a book, they are doing something that is the heart and soul of the American dream and the American ideal. It's a very sacred tradition.
Jewell Parker Rhodes
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You've got to give your past attention, but you've got to forgive yourself, acknowledge what you did wrong, and be a man, taking responsibility. You can't not fly anymore because of the things you've been through. You've got to believe in a brighter future, that better version of yourself.
Jon Jones
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I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox.
Barack Obama
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The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
Jill Robinson
