Hannah Whitall Smith Quotes
My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird...
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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I'm an ordinary Tasmanian like everybody else, and I have weight issues; I have issues around finding the time to do the exercise and things, but in my role as Health Minister, and in my role as myself as well, I have to look after my own health.
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I started breaking out of my shell in sophomore and junior year.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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You must enjoy the journey because whether or not you get there, you must have fun on the way.
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'
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To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.
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I haven't done an international film for a long time.
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For a brief time, I was here; and, for a brief time, I mattered.
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Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
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We have not made these choices lightly, Our decision was made in the full seriousness and clear knowledge of what is at stake.
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Loss of market begets unemployment. Emphasis has been on short-term profit, to the undernourishment of plans that might generate new product and service that would keep the company alive and provide jobs and more jobs. It is no longer socially acceptable performance to lose market and to dump hourly workers on to the heap of unemployed.
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When I was a little baby, I remember that one moment of calm peace, and three minutes after that, it was on.
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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
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My father had to go back to Iran to take care of his father when I was 13 and was detained for six years before returning. My mom was raising three kids without a dad.
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Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else.
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I'm just a working actor.
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So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends to write what she knows. In 'Revenge Wears Prada,' a great deal of my own life finds its way into the book.
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When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.
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True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,
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My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird...
