Kate Adie Quotes
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep, but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
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I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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And his money he cannot eat.
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Did I invent anything? I don't think so, not really. But if I've helped make history fun... then my work here is done.
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Yoga has to be done with the intellect of the head as well as the intellect of the heart
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
