Shirley Ann Manson Quotes
I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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I was a tomboy.
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Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.
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When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.
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It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment.
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I can be very ordinary looking.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
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I was burned so many times that I stopped giving interviews. In other words, if my words ended up in print, they were twisted in an indescribable fashion.
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All of a sudden I understand why I like Aliki Barnstones poems so much. They remind me of the one she has studied most - shall we call her her master - Emily Dickinson. Not in the forms, not, as such, in the music, and not in the references; but in that weird intimacy, that eerie closeness, that absolute confession of soul.... In Barnstone, too, the two worlds are intensely present, and the voice moves back and forth between them. She has the rare art of distance and closeness. It gives her her fine music, her wisdom, her form. She is a fine poet.
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Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal.
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I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.
