Kate Chopin Quotes
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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Before I begin talking about the threats we face, the vulnerabilities that we have, and frankly the courage of the men and women in uniform that stand in harm's way on behalf of a very grateful Nation, let me first honor the sacrifices of September 11.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.
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The joke is mightier than the sword.
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I'm very lucky.
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Music is something that should speak for itself, straight from the heart. It took me a long time to understand that.
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We've been astonished by how good groups working together can predict the outcomes of events.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis.
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I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.
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When I do a festival, I want everyone to have a party, I think it is kind of similar to a club where everyone is there to have a good time and celebrate not being at work or just being able to have fun. I love people dancing to my music as well; if I can make them dance I feel happy.
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So the storm passed and every one was happy.
