Kate Adie Quotes
On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.
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They were all interested in what I was going to do, because I'd never worked in televsion before.
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Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
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Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny, and that was something I learned from when I was 2, 3, 5 years old.
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My mother and father were both much more remarkable than any story of mine can make them. They seem to me just mythically wonderful.
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If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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I have only one real hobby - my husband.
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Remember, Mr Sharpe, an officer's eyes are more valuable than his sword!
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When I approach a story or movie, the story is the most important thing.
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Compromise, hell! That's what happened to us all down the line - and that's the very cause of our woes. If freedom is right and tyranny is wrong, why should those who believe in freedom treat it as if it were a roll of bologna to be bartered a slice at a time?
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There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.
