Carson McCullers Quotes
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I use my platform as a tool and a way to speak about greater change.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.
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I've never really felt like a veteran. I've never felt like the guy who's like, 'OK, everyone needs to look up to me and respect me.' I've always just been one of the guys that people are excited to get in the ring with. That's all I want.
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For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.
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I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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Our cultural capital has changed tremendously on its way into the twenty-first century. Manhattan has been secured and sanitized; it's smoke- and trans-fat-free. In the boroughs, many of the old jungles have been cleared as well.
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When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.
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Sooner or later, Israel will have to defeat Hamas. There is no way around it.
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I was born in Mumbai, but I grew up in England, and then my adulthood has been in the States. I'm an American stuffed with an English person with an Indian person inside. I feel like those things kind of inform me in some way, which I think helps me as an actor.
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Africa has been going through so much for so many years; it's time that it stands up the way other nations are standing up.
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'Braveheart' is way up there for me.
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Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.
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Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.
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I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court without the preparation of a few vicious moot courts; it is critical to the development of my thinking.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.
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I see people putting text messages on the phone or computer and I think, 'Why don't you just call?'
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In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these are the most worthless people capable of doing nothing else. Many of them undoubtedly possess great organising talent, which I would not dream of denying. We Soviet people learn a lot from the capitalists. But if you mean people who are prepared to reconstruct the world, of course you will not be able to find them in the ranks of those who faithfully serve the cause of profit. ..The capitalist is riveted in profit and nothing can tear him away from it.
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the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.
