Alison Louise Kennedy (A. L. Kennedy) Quotes
Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life - and maybe even please a few strangers.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.
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The universe of mortgage lending has gotten to the point where there is a place in it for everybody.
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Life for the European is a career; for the American it is a hazard.
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I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.
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The Right-wingers everywhere take themselves too seriously, whether in the U.S. or the U.K. And, by the way, so does the Left. The Left can take itself a little too seriously as well.
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Our individual consciousness is actually part of a larger system. There are many levels of consciousness, and the creativity used in composing the music comes from another level that is not purely personal.
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Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself, you will enrich your own life - and maybe even please a few strangers.
