Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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The way that people have gotten on board with me is the most encouraging thing in the world, but it's all very connected to the 14 years I've been on tour with Steel Train, even my band before that, Outline, and then fun. and now Bleachers.
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Mo Udall didn't want the presidency bad enough. He was too sane. He was a marvelous guy, but you had the feeling there was another Udall outside his body watching the candidate Udall who was too extravagant, telling him to cut it out.
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It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.
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My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym.
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Evil can and is overcome every minute of every day.
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There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.
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It was amazing that in this country where people allowed emotion to guide their politics they approached love with the precision of accountants.
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A man's house is his castle - et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium.
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An absence of credible information prevents citizens from participating in public decision-making, particularly on key issues of concern such as education, health, and governance.
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I'm quite chameleon in my work - not normally looking much like I do in real life.
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Every film requires a different process. You learn about these particular actors and the particular chemistry between these actors. Recognizing when you don't need to shoot a scene because it's going to be cut anyway.
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I don't say I was the first, because, who knows, maybe there was a guy out in Minnesota doing it before me.
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I couldn't do what I do without the encouragement and influence of the musicians I played with in Chicago.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.
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There were a hundred booksellers in the old round city founded by the eighth-century caliph al-Mansur. The café and wine-drinking culture of Baghdad has been famous for centuries; there was a whole school of Iraqi poets who wrote poems about the wine bars of medieval Baghdad - the khamriyaat, or wine songs, that I quote in the book.
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The central job of schools is to maximize the capacity of each students.
