Catherine Anderson Quotes
A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.
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I would like to play an average guy. I would have loved to play opposite John Candy in a movie. That was my dream for a long time, and sadly, now I can never realize that. But I'd like to do comedy.
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Among men, sex sometimes results in intimacy; among women, intimacy sometimes results in sex.
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they still consider you a nice person with whom the underlying human relationship need not be altered.
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
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One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
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After ten or twelve years you can only play something so long and then you start to parody it.
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When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.
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If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
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Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.
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Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.
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The Negro slave trade was the first step in modern world commerce, followed by the modern theory of colonial expansion. Slaves as an article of commerce were shipped as long as the traffic paid.
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'Sometimes,' he said, 'I think life is just one long series of blown opportunities.'
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The mass and majesty of this world, all That carries weight and always weighs the same Lay in the hands of others; they were small And could not hope for help and no help came: What their foes like to do was done, their shame Was all the worst could wish; they lost their pride And died as men before their bodies died.
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'When a man lies, he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives.', (Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676). 'All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation take me home?', (Burton).
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The habit of reading is the only one I know in which there is no alloy. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will be there to support you when all other resources are gone. It will be present to you when the energies of your body have fallen away from you. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.
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Given Mr. Obama's lack of experience as an executive, and his past performance in crises such as the oil spill, it is reasonable for those of us who support the effort in Afghanistan to worry that he will not be up to the job.
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Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
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It's important to keep your long term perspective and communicate well both externally and internally.
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Just keep on going and keep believing in your own original vision, no matter what odds you have to overcome. And especially don't be stopped by your own fears.
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A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.
