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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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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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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I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.
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I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves.
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When I meet gay men anywhere in the world, there is a spontaneity and a spirit of fun and mischief that lesbians seem incapable of.
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A lifetime is not too long to spend in learning about the world.
