Nellie McClung Quotes
I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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I'm an all-things-in-moderation kind of person. I do eat a warm donut occasionally. I especially enjoy a cider donut when I'm apple picking. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
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Cinema and the arts invite viewers to focus on a story and, in doing so, peel away its layers and peer into the depths of the human soul.
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I went to a lot of college camps when I was younger... You just admire those players because they're at a higher level than you at that time.
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Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.
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When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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Virtue is reason which has become energy.
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Today, no leader can afford to be indifferent to the challenge of engaging employees in the work of creating the future. Engagement may have been optional in the past, but it's pretty much the whole game today.
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Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
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The hoopla with all the award season is kind of mind-boggling. It kind of puts you on your heels.
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If only we could persuade galleries to observe a fallow period in which, for two months every other year, new and old works of art could be sold in back rooms and all main galleries would be devoted to revisiting shows gone by.
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Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature.
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I like being different people.
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It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.
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I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.
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It's really odd to be up close to an icon like Bruce Willis. You're used to seeing him on a screen, 50 feet tall. To think, 'Hmm, I'm taller than you are' is just weird.
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Ever since the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan has turned its back on Asia in general and China in particular: its pattern of aggression from 1895 onwards and the colonies that resulted were among the consequences.
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In the kind of roles I do, you can do them and walk away from it and have a really nice time.
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I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.
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Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.
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Well, Bradbury's a genius. Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite books of all time, and The Illustrated Man as a collection of short stories ranks up there. When you read it you realize how influential it is on so many other stories and people.
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Address the people you seek, and them only.
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I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.
