Adrienne Monique Jordan (Monique Coleman) Quotes
You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return.
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.
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As commander I was responsible for the overall success of the mission, and so I had to know at least a little bit about everything.
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Living in a world that is valued only as gain, an ever-expanding world-as-frontier that has no worth of its own, no fullness of its own, you live in danger of losing your own worth to yourself. That's when you begin to listen to the voices from the other side, and to ask questions of failure and the dark.
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When we are on the beach we only see a small part of the ocean. However, we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. We only see a small part of God's great love, a few jewels of His great riches, but we know that there is much more beyond the horizon. The best is yet to come, when we see Jesus face-to-face.
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I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.
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It's like killing each other is the only thing we know how to do.
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Enough for me is the mystery of the eternity of life, and the inkling of the marvelous structure of reality. There is in this neither a will nor a goal, nor a must, but only sheer being.
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Lay plans for the accomplishment of the difficult before it becomes difficult; make something big by starting with it when small.
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I've fallen in love with Brooklyn. I'm going to buy a little house in Brooklyn and live there. I'll go to the coast only when I have to make a picture.
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In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
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I consider all of my pieces to be investment pieces. A dress shouldn't be worn for one season - you should be able to wear it year after year.
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Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups - just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account.
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I've been a road-rat since I got my driver's licence at 16, so I've probably gone across America 20 times.
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Everyone - you included - is on her best behavior in the beginning of a relationship. Sometimes little quirks turn out to be big ones, and the big advantage that women have - sometimes the only advantage - is their intuition.
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Practicing yoga is like tuning up your car: it allows the bode to function in accordance with what it was designed to do.
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For me a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
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I know many older writers who were very successful and whose books are now out of print, so you have to go to antiquarian booksellers to buy their fifth or eighth novel or whatever it is.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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If you don't feel safe as a child, you can't learn.
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Good music will always be recognized in the end.
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You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.
