Amanda Craig Quotes
My body had taken on a life of its own, in which it wept while I remained an embarrassed parent, unable to control its excesses.
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Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
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I did an improv that was one of the most exhilarating ten minutes of my entire life. I mean, when you're doing it, you forget yourself.
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Speech and having a stammer is obviously a big part of my life.
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I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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Jazz is a constant theme in my life. My father is a jazz pianist, and from an early age I have been surrounded by it.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
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Ancient, woman-centered words and beliefs never, like, fall off the planet. Having long done taken on a life of their own, they - like womankind - evolve, and survive. Chameleon style.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
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My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'
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Whilst in ordinary life every shopkeeper is very well able to distinguish between what somebody professes to be and what he really is, our historians have not yet won even this trivial insight. They take every epoch at its word concerning what it says and imagines about itself.
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Life is a gift that the humblest may boast ofAnd one that the humblest may well make the most of.Get out and live it each hour of the day,Wear it and use it as much as you may;Don't keep it in niches and corners and grooves,You'll find that in service its beauty improves.
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Sharing instructions about how to perform better for others is very different than sharing feelings about life experiences that make us happy or sad.
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Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the mostMust mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth,The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
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It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.
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I believe that sometimes, when we talk about books, we're talking about the big picture - how they're relevant.
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We have such a loyal following in London that we decided to open a shop, and I find Albemarle Street extremely charming and special.
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As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it.
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The historian does not locate known facts in a hypothetical, general pattern of processes; his aim is to link fact to fact, one unique knowable event to another individual one that begot it.
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My body had taken on a life of its own, in which it wept while I remained an embarrassed parent, unable to control its excesses.
