Sister Parish Quotes
Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots.
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It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.
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I am much more understanding of people than I used to be when I was young - people were either villainous or wonderful. They were painted in very bright colours. The bad side of it - and there is a corollary to everything - is that when we get older, we fuss more. I used to despise people who fussed.
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As an entrepreneur and mother, I support the need to put women at the center, recognizing their crucial impact on social development and their important role of balancing family and professional responsibilities.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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When you're young, oddly enough, you're more afraid, more conservative about what it is you have.
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My feet are like something from another age - prehistoric and troll-like. I keep expecting them to talk, they have that much character.
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I think songwriting was the biggest way that I found my identity.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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Someone told me that having a baby is like having your heart walking around outside of your body, and I didn't understand it until I had a baby. Now, like, everything he does literally crushes my heart. In a great way. And then if he's in pain, it's like my whole endeavor is to make sure he's not in pain.
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What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
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I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
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Not all that counts, can be counted.
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I think we should have more coffeehouses, more cafes, more "third places." More places where people can get together that's not work, not home, and where they can interact with people who are different from them.
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Competing in my first Olympics in the country where my parents came from is pretty insane. I'm feeling nothing but excitement.
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We have stay-in date nights where we make a plan to watch certain TV shows together. 'Survivor,' for example, is our favorite show. And I make a healthy dinner and we sit down and it's our date. I love it.
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Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
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Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots.
