Jonathan Swift Quotes
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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I think if you write about human relationships, you're always exploring the psyche and the soul. I don't separate certain - perhaps more extreme - things that people do from others.
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They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.
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I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
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I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
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When women smoke, it is hard for them to quit because they are so worried about their weight; it's a vanity issue and a mindset.
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The biggest threat, when it comes to climate change and pollution, isn't going to come from us because we only have 300 million people. It's going to come from China with over 1 billion people and India with over 1 billion people.
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Every creative person, and I think probably every other person, faces resistance when they are trying to create something good...The harder the resistance, the more important the task must be.
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I bought a trench coat from Dubai worth 495 dirham.
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We are still conditioning people in this country and, indeed, all over the globe to the myth of white superiority. We are constantly being told that we don't have racism in this country anymore, but most of the people who are saying that are white. White people think it isn't happening because it isn't happening to them.
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People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.
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Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.
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But what if we are dealing with fools?
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In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.
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I am 39 years old, and I still wake up every morning really excited I don't have to go to school.
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Fools are apt to imitate only the defects of their betters.
