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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I can't go and shoot people in the back of the head because It's a kids' movie, which is actually quite a good test because you haven't got the overt threat of a knife in the face.
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The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.
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To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism.
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I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of light inhabiting a space. My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
