Cate Tiernan (Gabrielle Charbonnet) Quotes
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We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.
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The great object is that every man be armed.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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In 1975 I decided that there was no future in flying (airline jobs were impossible to get, and who wants a job where you are judged only by seniority?) and headed off to grad school.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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I used to have a real passion for writing, but not so much anymore - probably because I do too much of it.
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I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.
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Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.
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My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in each of her kids and instilled confidence in all of us that that gift would take us wherever we wanted to go.
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I was a dancer, so for me, if I don't work out for a week or move my body in some sense, I feel weird.
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I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.
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For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
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Putting people into homes, though a desirable goal, shouldn’t be our country’s primary objective. Keeping them in their homes should be the ambition.
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If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
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It's a weird thing to have your dad or your parent be on the stage with a million people saying their name, and you're like, 'No, that's just dad.'
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I'd be more willing to accept religion, even if I didn't believe it, if I thought it made people nicer to each other but I don't think it does.
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I use music and mantras that transform my thoughts from the negative to the positive. If I'm thinking the world is a horrible place, I can transform my life by saying, 'I won't give up', 'I won't worry my life away' and 'I won't hesitate no more', using these lyrics to change my experience. That is, I believe, what makes me seem like a positive person.
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What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?
