Sara Willis (Fanny Fern) Quotes
Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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Sometimes, I get afraid it has defined me, that sense of grief, loss and illness. But actually, it is about allowing myself to take hold and say: 'This is part of who I am, but not only who I am.'
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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I'm a way bigger worrier than I ever was before I had kids. And, you know, the stress and anxiety that can go along with motherhood, I have had to battle that.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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We have to reform the entire political process. It's got to start with leadership by example.
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Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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My family never had a business background. We are artistes.
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I'm not interested in making horror-comedies, but I'm very interested in making scary movies with funny parts.
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Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.
