Victoria Smurfit Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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The clash of civilizations or the clash between Islam and the West may be cliches. But there is an even bigger cliche around: that this clash actually goes on within Islam, between reformists and fanatics.
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Vin Scully has been my broadcasting idol for a long time. He is so humble - he has the exact same work ethic that he had 65 years ago. His family is what he cares about the most, and at the heart of his whole being is his marriage and kids.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.
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Seriously, who doesn't want to slap a 27-year-old movie star?
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I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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I would like to be where Diana Rigg or Judi Dench is, but I expect it is as good as it is going to get.
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My business doesn't keep me warm at night.
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Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.
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There's a slippery slope in regard to authority. If you say that the history in Genesis is not true, then you can just take man's ideas as true. When you go outside of Scripture, why shouldn't you just reinterpret what marriage means? So our emphasis is on the slippery slope regarding authority.
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I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
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The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.
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If you're Irish, it doesn't matter where you go - you'll find family.
