Anne Askew Quotes
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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I worked for Oprah Winfrey for two years right out of college in 2004. I was a director's assistant on the film 'Their Eyes Were Watching God,' which Oprah produced.
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I have to say I am a 'Strictly' fan, which is why I am in it. I've always watched it for years. I am not an 'X Factor' fan, and I just think it is a different show. One is about learning something new and having a great time, and the other is rather desperate.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
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Where would we be without inhibitions? They're quite useful things when you look at some of the things humans do if they lose them.
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Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.
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I hate the word sexy.
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However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.
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I'm OK: I don't need money.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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And I know that all I understand about living is having your work to do, and being able to do it. That’s the pleasure, and the glory, and all. And if you can’t do the work, or it’s taken from you, then what’s any good? You have to have something....
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I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...
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Life is good - we forget that.
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I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.
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When I get some down time on the weekends, I love gallery hopping with friends, in particular checking out Gagosian Galleries - between the three in N.Y.C., there's always a great show on or something cool to see.
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Our stories are different; our pain is the same.
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I was living in upstate New York, in Kingston - small town, no comedy scene except for my friends and I doing these DIY shows and whatnot. And we put together this thing called the 'Altercation Punk Rock Comedy Tour.'
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I'm not handled. I'm not crafted by slick, high-priced consultants. I'm a real person, a genuine person, a struggling person in Connecticut.
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Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.
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I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured.
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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
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The traditional teaching of the church has proven to be the only failsafe way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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I would sooner read five lines of the Bible than hear five masses in the "Church".
