John Cleveland Quotes
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.
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I got lost but look what I found.
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Stasis is something that has marked my life since I was a boy growing up in Pittsburgh with my mother. It was the natural state that we existed in. For one thing, she suffered from a debilitating depression throughout my childhood, and depression is nothing if not static.
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I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.
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Looking back on the things I've doneI was trying to be someoneI played my part and kept you in the darkNow let me show you the shape of my heart.
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Judy, 8, is watching TV He tells Judy, 'Better pack it in, sweetie. Another big day tomorrow: we're going to go to the beach and sailing.' But his voice comes out listless, and perhaps that is the saddest loss time brings, the lessening of excitement about anything.
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I can recall, as a young adult, running through the rain forest at the Forest Reserve, at times feeling a sense of fear when I felt I was in danger. In danger of confronting an ugly snake or a coral snake, which represented the greatest fear of someone in a rural area when you traverse the forest.
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I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.
