Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.
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I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
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I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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I feel like I'm a New Yorker because I really know the city. I actually tell the drivers where to go - I have this bad habit, I always question the drivers. I do that all the time because I feel like I know the best way, when really it's like, 'Yo, man, shut up. This dude does this every day of his life.'
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If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
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The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.
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Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
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I have tried Botox, and I don't like it because it stops you being able to move your facial muscles which, as an actress, are essential. But I do have collagen injections.
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An unhatched egg is to me the greatest challenge in life.
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The major abstraction is the idea of man And major man is its exponent, abler In the abstract than in his singular, More fecund as principle than particle
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It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.
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It doesn't get much better than playing Elvis during the early days of his career.
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At any age, we struggle with intimacy. When you're a kid, you think, 'I won't have that problem. I'll have sex whenever I want when I'm a grown-up!' And then, somehow, it doesn't quite turn out that way, and it's so surprising to people that connection remains so challenging even when you're married.
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For you to even enquire about one player, he is expensive. You go to buy a right-back, a left-back, or a central defender, and he is expensive.
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The things that I paint are things that I know very well.
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Everybody has equal opportunity, and I think that is true for everything.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Everybody tells me that they would love to knit, but they don't have time. I look at people's lives and I can see opportunity and time for knitting all over the place. The time spent riding the bus each day? That's a pair of socks over a month. Waiting in line? Mittens. Watching TV? Buckets of wasted time that could be an exquisite lace shawl.
