Randall Terry Quotes
If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
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The only way I can be there and really get into the character is if I'm her.
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My father passed away when I was very young, so I was head of household for a very long time. Whether it came to cooking food or having to braid hair to get kids out of the door for school, I've been one that has - with the help of my mother - has been a father figure for a lot of young ladies.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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The very success of medicine in a material way may now threaten the soul of medicine.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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We had a kid. The kid was awesome. She didn't fall asleep easily. We complained about it. We got frustrated. But we didn't look for an out. We just accepted that this was part of parenting.
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I can easily connect with the prepubescent dork I spent much of my life being.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.
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Probably though, by the time I was 17, I already knew that I was probably going to go into film...
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Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.
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When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
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They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
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If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
