Adam Beach Quotes
I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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I am glad that Wimbledon is my last slam. I love the atmosphere and courts of SW19, and it is an addiction, which I will find tough to give up.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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There is quite a large clan of Scotties among American beggars. He is a good beggar for the simple reason that he is a good talker. Almost every Scotch beggar I met in the States of America was inclined to be talkative, and yet they all managed to conceal their private affairs.
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I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.
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A convention was drawn up on June 17, 1925, in which the principle of supervision, as opposed to that of simple propaganda, was recognized, thanks to the efforts of the labour members, of whom I was one.
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The adulation from viewers is a huge stimulant for me, and it keeps me going.
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I should say I am not much of a gamer - anymore. The reason for this is that I have to make a living, and my body requires vitamin D, and I've come to value the heady pleasures of human interaction over the temporary exhilaration of reaching the 'next level.'
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I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.
