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 personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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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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Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.
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At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I'm a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they're mine, so who cares.
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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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God looks after children, animals and idiots.
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If it were true that children mimicked their teachers, you'd sure have a helluva lot more nuns running around.
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I am always looking for stories that have not been told too much, and one story that I think is really gripping and important is what police officers go through.
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I just happen to admire everyone that we work with.
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I don't have children, but we all want to protect whatever we love in life.
