Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Quotes
What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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There are several peculiarities that I share with children which, like having no front teeth, are perhaps more acceptable in the very young, but which, for better or worse, seem to be a part of my makeup.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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I know things aren't perfect for women in the U.K. and in America, but there are women in the rest of the world who have it far worse.
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I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'
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When people ask me why I'm amazed at what Barack Obama has accomplished, I tell them it's not because of what most of America and the world sees and knows of his history. It's because I witnessed what I can only describe as a bizarre turn of events that thrust him into position to even become a U.S. senator.
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I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn't coming back.' They started throwing Bibles.
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Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.
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What I learned at journalism school and at ABC - those skills are the same no matter where you are in the world.
