Carol Ann Tomlinson Quotes
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When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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I can't think of anything worse than trying to schmooze someone with the idea that you're an actor.
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I follow the universe; I follow G-d. G-d made the sun, and the sun shines on everyone.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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I have an appreciation for everywhere I've been so far.
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It's very rare that things are true about yourself that are on the Internet. It's just sad sometimes. So you definitely try and stay away from it as much as possible.
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When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
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The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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I'm always, all the time, eating chocolate. I eat pretty healthy, but then I go all out when it has to do with chocolate.
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We believed in our idea - a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
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I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
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I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.
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We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.
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The thematic bucket of vomit that I've been chained to since I was about 9 is the moral complexity of anti-heroism. I have always been interested in good people who do bad things for understandable reasons.
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The Rio experience for me is going to be completely different to London.
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Usually the films that I do are released theatrically in foreign markets. In the U.S., they're either picked up as HBO premier films or Showtime first-runs. In today's market, in America, you need at least $50 million for your budget to go to the big show, and I'm not quite there yet. But keep watching - maybe someday I will be.
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Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished
