Sara Willis (Fanny Fern) Quotes
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I am very much a girly girl as well as being this tough, athletic fighter. I grew up a tomboy. I got my first four wheeler when I was eight. I got my first dirt bike shortly after. So, I have a lot of these manly qualities, I guess you would say. But, I also like to go get dressed up every weekend.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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What's great about HBO is they just care about quality. They care about the brand. They're not worried about ratings; obviously they want people to buy subscriptions, but they just want people to be into what's on HBO.
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The bad guys don't always get punished and the good guys are not necessarily pure.
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I started classes and it wasn't because I was like, 'I want to be an actor!' - I was really interested in the theory of what acting can be and what it's about. It's all about living in the moment and kind of being present, which is something that at that time in my life I really wanted to explore.
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On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.
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As an Ambassador for PSI and a supporter of Nothing But Nets, I have met individuals around the world who are lending their ideas, their voices, and their time to improve their communities and the world at large. And there are millions more that I have not met.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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Vanity was a joke. She was an image created to make money.
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It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
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I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.
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Ever since I was a child I've always been very attracted to melodies. Whether I hear Jeff Beck, a choir, an ocean or the wind, there's always a melody in there.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
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Victims take pity on victims.
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Puns are often unacceptable to the feelings; they come like a spoonful of ice-cream in the midst of a comfortable smoking-hot steak, or as a peppery morsel when your palate was in expectation of a mild pudding.
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The only assurance of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion.
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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
