Sonya Hartnett Quotes
How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.
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My agenda is not to reassure anybody outside Lebanon.
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When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.
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Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
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I started writing music with my cousin at, like, 16 and traveled with a '70s band.
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I really do think artists are the most important people on the planet, and if what I do is a utility and helps them, then that makes me happy. I want to be helpful.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.
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Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
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When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.
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How does one craft happiness out of something as important, as complicated, as unrepeatable and as easily damaged as life?
