Kate Williams Quotes
When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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We are living in difficult times. There are a lot of people out of work - am I going to stand there and whinge? No, because I am lucky to have such a wonderful job.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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The luxury of radio is that you don't spend hours in make-up, and you can wear whatever you want. It's bizarre. You'll be saying lines, with various people around making sound effect noises.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother.
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I say things other people wish they could say. I don't pick on people - I empower them.
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I can't sing.
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People love teen movies because everyone can relate.
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Where liberty dies, evil grows.
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When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box covered in silver and bits of cellophane. I'd close him up in it and joggle him and say, 'We're in Victorian times now... and now we're in Egyptian times, and I can see all these pyramids and pharaohs.'
