Shirley Henderson Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die a little. This sounds like a subtle, poetic notion. It's not. In American legal and cultural tradition, one essential privilege of citizenship is not having to prove it on demand.
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I want people to just to see, all you got to do is have a little faith.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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There's a lot of girls out there that can relate to me. They can look at me and see themselves a little bit. There's a lot of girls out there that have a tougher side to them. I just think that people are really grown and attracted to that, and that's why people like to see me fight.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
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I think that when you make yourself vulnerable, the thing that you do next is better. It's not like you have to inflict pain on yourself in order to make yourself better, but I think it helps. The thing that bonds you to a new friend isn't that you went to a really fun party; it's 'cause you had a really weird, sad conversation.
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Punishment is justice for the unjust.
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Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.
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I don't like shows that are predictable. I like it when you're shocked and you have no idea who's about to die.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an inoperable cancer - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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I never want to hurt anyone on the ice. That's not the type of player I am.
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.
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I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.
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Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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Knowledge of peace passes from country to country, like children's games, which are so much alike, everywhere.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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May your dreams be sweet and your nightmares be spooky-monster-scary and not grandma-died-scary.
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I don't have children, but we all want to protect whatever we love in life.
