T. H. White Quotes
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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My mission as a writer is to give my readers hope to carry with them, and to promote a belief that they can do anything they set their minds to.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
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I would like to do something that pushes me as an actress to make me better. I would love to do something dramatic or crazy. I think that would be so much fun.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.
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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world.
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I remember making my own dog food and feeling very fulfilled by it, then by day four I was over it.
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
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There are certain moments that you have to hit in a film, like when a character cries.
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We are not going to waste our reserves and burn them for any political ambitions. We will act very carefully.
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I used to be gay, but I was forced to give it up, because it made my eyes water.
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Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
