Storm Jameson (Margaret Storm Jameson) Quotes
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.
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It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
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I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
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For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
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I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.
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Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.
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I am quite a private person.
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And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
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As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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I turn left for a living.
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But to this day - I'm very literate now, I love to read, I read constantly - words don't resonate the way they do to a person with a formal education. They're like a maze, a puzzle that has to be opened up.
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I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
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It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.
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My relationship with fans is based off the love of my work and my work ethic.
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I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.
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A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.
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Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
