Miep Gies Quotes
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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I've always thought Juliette Lewis was great.
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When I was elected, I was the youngest member of the Tennessee congressional delegation; now, I'm one of the oldest. In fact, I have members of my staff who weren't even born when I took office. That tells me it's time for a new chapter.
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I need something to do when I'm not working, or I crawl up the walls. So I've just taken up kung fu. I was looking for some kind of calming, relaxing activity. I tried yoga, but it wasn't really me.
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The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.
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Ann Coulter is very popular. She has got a niche. She is a best selling author, but she does not represent Republican women.
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I am going to Rio with a chance of a medal.
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He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.
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I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up a comic book and have no idea what was going on.
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'Nutty Professor' was me going, 'Say what you want to say, but I can do this, and you can't, and nobody else in the town can do this.'
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You don't have to win every fight. You don't have to fight every fight. But you DO have to stand for something.
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Now was the present, now was the time containing that sweet union of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, spirit, will and imagination named Nancy.
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I will be the answerAt the end of the line.I will be there for you,Why take the time?In the burning of uncertainty,I will be your solid ground.I will hold the balanceIf you can't look down.
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By and large these attempts to rewrite history were not taken seriously, but it was disconcerting to hear that they had gained even a toehold.
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I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.
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The first time I did a show, I definitely didn't get any money. My friend just let me do this show. I was so nervous: my mic didn't work, and I was like, 'Urgh.' It was terrible. It was a dingy club off of the highway, but all these people came. It was packed out.
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If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.
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Margot Livesey, my dear friend, reads all the drafts of what I write, and I read hers. We have an intense working relationship. I've been really lucky to know her. She's a great reader and teacher as well as an astonishingly good writer.
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The best we can do is prioritize our needs and make choices accordingly.
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Often, we do not know where our choices will take us. This is why the best choices are often made based not on what they can bring to us, but what they will allow us to bring to others.
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We had all awakened X number of years past our youth feeling sleazy and harsh. Choices still existed, but they were no longer infinite. Fun had become a scrim, concealing the hysteria that lay behind it.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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I myself am just an ordinary woman. I simply had no choice.
