Federica Montseny Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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The way to have power is to take it.
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
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Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.
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The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life - which I am now so open about - is sort of surreal.
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As the acting class was going on, I just realized I just knew more about cinema than the other people in the class. I cared about cinema and they cared about themselves. But two, was actually at a certain point I just realized that I love movies too much to simply appear in them. I wanted the movies to be my movies.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
