Melissa Benoist Quotes
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I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.
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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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There always have been funny women.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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As long as I have ambition, maybe I can achieve something for my country.
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There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.
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There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.
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Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'
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It's so important to have that independence. You know it yourself: Everyone needs evenings of their own.
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When we read about reading, we get to share an experience that is usually kept private. Incisive descriptions of reading help us to understand what is going on when our eyes move across words on the page.
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I think that a classic style in writing tends to remove the reader one level from the immediacy of the experience. For any normal reader, I think a colloquial style makes him feel more as though he is within the action, instead of just reading about it.
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The class has become over the years fairly large, running to three hundred or more, but I always insist upon reading all the student folklore collections myself. Although this is a tall order, I look forward to it because I learn so much from it.
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Reading about myself on Perez Hilton was kind of the weirdest thing ever.
