Rebecca Stead Quotes
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!
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All in all, I think Kazan is Russia's sportiest city after Moscow, leaving all the others far behind.
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In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. He's done everything for me and I owe him the world.
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The way we remember people, even their beauty is all so subjective and a matter of perspective.
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Th' adorning thee with so much artIs but a barb'rous skill;'T is like the pois'ning of a dart,Too apt before to kill.
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Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.
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One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.
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I fell completely in love with acting. I guess I was bitten.
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I'm just a working actor.
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I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
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I grew up in South Central Los Angeles in the '80s, back when it just wasn't a cool scene. But my mother had the foresight to look for a number of projects that would keep us away from the streets.
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I learned early that class is universally admired.
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My parents come from that immigrant culture that places a lot of emphasis on doing well scholastically. Being a comedian or an actor is such an American thing. The Iranian culture is not about dreaming. It's about taking over your father's business, falling into line.
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'I don’t know,' Davidson said. 'Maybe it’s not about politics. Maybe these guys are just assholes.''Seems the simplest explanation,' I said.
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This is my principal objection to life, I think: It is too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
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Thou'rt slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell; And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better than thy stroke.
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Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life.
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There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit.
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The soul, like the body, accepts by practice whatever habit one wishes it to contact.
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There is no spray can called 'Instant Stardom', only talent can keep you at the top.
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Pajamas are good for the soul.
