Fiona Shaw Quotes
And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
Fiona Shaw
Quotes to Explore
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When you grow up in a place, you always think it's mundane. Then you travel around and live in different places, and you realise that you've got it the wrong way 'round.
Irvine Welsh
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When I was in college, I learned to really take care of my body and figured out what works best for me and what doesn't work for me when it comes to my nutrition. That helped so much on the field because soccer is such a fitness-oriented game.
Abby Wambach
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I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.
Maika Monroe
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Marriage is a definite no-no. I am totally married to my company. Emotionally, my mother fills up the void in my life. So there it is. My company is a spouse I will never cheat on, and my mother completes me as a son. I think I have a full family unit of my own.
Karan Johar
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
Karen Black
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
Florence Nightingale
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I'm tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.
C. S. Lewis
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I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.
Kara Lindsay
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
Larry David
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If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I have no doubt that there will be, the day after or within days an equivalent of a Reichstag fire decree that will involve massive detentions in this country.
Daniel Ellsberg
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
Imre Kertesz
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller
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There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun.
Nate Powell
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
Randi Weingarten
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I never would have guessed that I would get a job for the way I sound. I would get notes about how I should lose my accent, and part of me thinks, 'How dare you! This is who I am! Millions of people want to sound like me!' But it's sensitive, and I have tried to change it, with little to no success.
Jack McBrayer
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Yes there is a little group of soccer aficionados, but I am not one of them.
Gay Talese
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I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.
Eberhard Weber
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
Naomi Watts
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The Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
Alan Paton
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Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil.
Walt Disney
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Don't think that you can just rely on natural talent because there are going to be times when you get a little tired and that's when your skills come into play to help you make look easy.
Adrienne Monique Jordan
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You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
R. L. Stine
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We are not rolling over on this. It's too important to the nation and to the nation's children.
Alan I. Leshner
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And by endlessly sanitizing our feelings, we actually feed a disgruntled nation.
Fiona Shaw
