Stevie Smith Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Back in those days intimidation was the greatest tool the drill instructor had. Without that tool, he would not have had control.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.
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I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.
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When men talk about war, the stories and terminology vary - it's this battle, these weapons, this terrain. But no matter where you go in the world, women use the same language to speak of war. They speak of fire, they speak of death, and they speak of starvation.
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No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.
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Women hold up half the sky.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.
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To act is to rest.
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I don't think young people are prepared for the moment of reckoning at the end of college - if you even go to college - where you have to get off of the hamster wheel and decide, 'Wait, where do I go from here?'
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I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.
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I simply want to do what I can to have the best Congress possible representing the American people.
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Across Africa there is what I call a colonialist mentality or orthodoxy. Orthodoxy in the sense that a lot of things have gone wrong in Africa in the post-colonial period. And time and time again, any time something went wrong, the leadership claims that it was never their fault.
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I do think that people will claim a certain fatigue about talking about race. But I think that even though they do, it's still necessary - completely necessary.
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When you see yourself as calm, positive, truthful and possessed of high character, you behave with greater strength. Other people respect you more. You feel in control of yourself and the situation.
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I have often been asked why I am so fond of playing male parts. As a matter of fact, it is not male parts, but male brains that I prefer.
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I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.
