Joseph Addison Quotes
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When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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There aren't that many things left that haven't already been done, especially with music. I'm interested in ideas that can shake us all up.
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I think being directed and mentored by someone as inspirational as Paul Feig not only improves my performance but, as a whole, makes it what it is.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
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What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
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I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
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I'd follow Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson anywhere.
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I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.
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Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
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Oftentimes, you have to be able to throw it in order to run it.
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Math has a lot of negative stereotypes, but it can actually be fun and incredibly empowering.
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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
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The term 'alpha female' originated in my field of animal behavior, but has acquired new meaning. It refers to women who are in charge, for example, by flirting and dating on their own terms. It is also used maliciously for a loud-mouthed, controlling woman who has no patience with deviating opinions.
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Sydney in general is eclectic. You can be on that brilliant blue ocean walk in the morning and then within 20 minutes you can be in a completely vast suburban sprawl or an Italian or Asian suburb, and it's that mix of people, it's that melting pot of people that give it its vital personality.
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You need to be hyper-aware because it's your survival at stake.
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
