Horace Greeley Quotes
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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The media doesn't create narratives, really. They're not that powerful. What they do is they tap into narratives that are already bubbling amongst their viewership or readership.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.
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When we think of war, the tendency is to picture young soldiers only in their military roles. To a large extent this dehumanizes the soldiers and makes it easier for society to commit them to combat.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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'8 Miles to Pancake Day' is a reconciliation of the classic space-time dilemma.
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There is no doubt that some in Iran have an unhealthy focus on Bahrain, as some of the broadcast coverage shows.
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Politicians have limited power. They can't impose morality on themselves. How can they impose it on the country?
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Being in jail, it's humbled me in a way I never imagined.
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God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear.
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I took Meisner for a long time. I use a lot of sense memory and, well, I wouldn't say Method, but I can't really avoid getting into character.
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Smell is a long-distance sense, a way of stretching time and finding out in advance what lies ahead.
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Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it.
