Catherine Brady Quotes
My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than that, she'd complain, Why can't they leave something to the imagination? I sort of subscribe to her philosophy when it comes to writing sex.
Quotes to Explore
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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It's no secret that I've been reluctant to use my name for things.
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Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.
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I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.
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I hyper-analyze everything; I'm always in my head. Those moments where you don't think and you're just part of the environment did not come easily to me, but it was those moments and highs that I chased.
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I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.
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I try to stay in decent shape.
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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.
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If poetry is like an orgasm, an academic can be likened to someone who studies the passion-stains on the bedsheets.
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And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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My Irish Catholic mother loved romantic movies, provided they ended with a kiss before the screen went dark. If things went any further than that, she'd complain, Why can't they leave something to the imagination? I sort of subscribe to her philosophy when it comes to writing sex.
