Virginia Foxx Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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You don't always make an out. Sometimes the pitcher gets you out.
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I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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Our job as writers is to listen, to come home to the four corners of the earth.
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The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us with unconditional love.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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The state doesn't own your children. Parents own the children.
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Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.
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As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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People need to know, before I'm associated with any party, I am an American, and that's what I want to drive home at the RNC.
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To me, one of the big fears of doing a big huge graphic novel is locking yourself into one style and getting halfway through it and going, 'Oh I made the wrong choice,' which is a recurring nightmare I have.
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I haven't really heard much that's impressed me the way it was when I first heard Ray Charles or somebody like that. That was really an impression.
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A lot of people say I've missed out on a lot because I started acting at such a young age. What's so obvious to me is that I actually was really lucky. I gained a lot and I got a head start in what I wanted to do in life. A lot of people in their late 20s, early 30s are just beginning to figure out where they want to go.
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Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in print I felt like OK, I have to read this. And yeah, I thought God, this is petty, this is silly, too emotional, too raw...and maybe it was then, but now it all seems that it's so much better because all the stuff that felt petty and silly now seems more relevant because Andy was so important.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.
