M. Leighton Quotes
Hearts don't often break even. One person is usually more hurt while the other is more relieved.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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The very provision of benches by the council or the corporation acknowledges the human need to be private in public, to be conspicuously idle, to have nothing better to do.
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I've served on the International Relations Committee.
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Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
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There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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Our soldiers and people form one family. United, we may count on victory.
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I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
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Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
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Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart –The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd – To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
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All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'
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Hearts don't often break even. One person is usually more hurt while the other is more relieved.
