Adrienne von Speyr Quotes
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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'Madden' is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.
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You look at a Pete Rose to be the terrific athlete he is and then he falls on hard times, but when he played the game, I got something from the way he played the game because he hustled every play, and just because he had one mistake in his life, am I supposed to throw back everything that I gained from him?
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
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If there's a cat, I obliterate it by putting polka dot stickers on it. I obliterate a horse by putting polka dot stickers on it. And I obliterated myself by putting the same polka dot stickers on myself.
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I love the sport and being competitive.
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A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.
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When I was on stage, I was like, 'This is alright. This is good.'
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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
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War is not civilized.
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My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
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One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
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A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two decades now, and I'm always convinced I'm not doing it right. Chemistry is so important in a great kiss. You can act your way through anything, but it's hard with a kiss.
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I talk in that baby talk voice when I'm on TV, it's a put on.
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I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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In the eighties, when she chiefly flourished, husbands were taken seriously, as the only real obstacles to sin. Beds too, if they had to be mentioned, were approached with caution; and a decent reserve prevented them and husbands ever being spoken of in the same breath.
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I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.
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The sins of others can never become the measure of your own.
