Texas Guinan (Mary Louise Cecilia) Quotes
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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My favourite job hands down - and I think I can speak for everyone involved - was 'Breaking Bad.'
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My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.
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It is often suggested that the A.N.C. is controlled by the Communist Party, by Communists. Well, I have been long enough in the A.N.C. to know that that has never been true.
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
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At 23 it was all about acting. Today it's getting my kids to school, making sure that they've done their homework. I'm in my fifties, and I'm turning into a square.
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It's time for women to wake up, to use the power of the vote, to honor the suffragists who chained themselves to the White House fence so that women could vote.
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I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.
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I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
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If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you.
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Most of us do not, in fact, read another language, and so when we read a translation, we have no way of knowing what has been changed or added.
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I was a Christian in Creed, but nobody ever asked me.
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You have to believe. You have to stick to your guns.
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When I finally finished writing 'Sisters,' I started getting hired for lots of rewrites.
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History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
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Either we are a sovereign state, or we are not! As long as we are not, we have no business in a community of sovereign states.
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I track some long hours.
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
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These initial findings are troubling and the committee ... will continue with its own investigation of the STAR program to get at the truth and inform Congress for the future.
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A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
