Saint Ambrose Quotes
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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man.
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Whenever I get to a point I'm so tired that I forgot the verse of a song, I know I'm burnt out.
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Let us have peace.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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So this is my effort to bring back the hope that we must have if we are to change direction. . . . I think to be fully human, we need to have meaning in our lives, and that's what I am trying to help these young people to find.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
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Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.
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If you wish to understand me at all (and to write an autobiography is only to open a window into one's heart) you must understand first and foremost, that I am an Australian.
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Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
