Caroline Pratt Quotes
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I get homesick.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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I'm an honest, open father.
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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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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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I think fan fiction is the way most writers start, and the same goes for music and design.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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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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People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.
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Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know it is not easy to create a top team from zero. You need good riders, good staff, a lot of preparation and, most important, a lot of sponsors.
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I been talkin' with my buddy, and he thinks I'm virgin enough fer the two of us.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.
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Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.
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A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.
