Vinessa Shaw Quotes
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I'm not really that girl who dreams about her wedding day.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
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Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.
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You adapt your look to places you live, where you are and what you are doing.
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I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.
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How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.
