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 took over the ministry for science and technology, our weather systems were in shambles. Nobody believed in the IMD. Nothing was in digital mode. I changed all that. We got automatic rain gauges, automatic weather stations, Doppler radars.
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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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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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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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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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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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Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
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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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I have always been fascinated by fashion. I never had any interest in waiting tables or bar-tending, so retail was sort of my best option.
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If I'm characterized as a character actor, that's fine with me. Whatever they want to call me is fine.
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It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
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I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.
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You have a diasporic black world, and the only way to put it back together again is symbolic. It's like Humpty Dumpty. Whoever could edit the 'Encyclopedia Africana' would provide symbolic order to the fragments created over the past 500 years. That is a major contribution.
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A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.
