Catherine Doherty (Baroness Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine de Hueck Doherty) Quotes
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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All my life the only thing I've been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance.
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In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee with mom. They react differently on the next day when you say: 'Sit down and shut-up!'
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People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.
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My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
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A boy's hunched body loved out of a stalkThe first song of his happiness, and the song wokeHis heart to the darkness and into the sadness of joy.
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The teenage female has less demand to perform and more resources to attract love. Her body and mind are more genetic gifts.
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Just Cause: Learn not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy. (tr. Hickie 1853, vol. 1, Perseus)
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Be thou erect, or be made erect.
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I've been dreaming of a time whenThe English are sick to death of Labour and ToriesAnd spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell and denounce this royal line that still salutes himAnd will salute him forever.
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I feel very, very thankful to have the family that I do.
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Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
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I have a British voice and a rather formal one at that, having been brought up in post-WWII Britain. My voice is perfectly suited to the sort of book I write, I think. It would not fit a contemporary, besides which I do not know enough about the contemporary world to write convincingly or comfortably about it!
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Lessons often come dressed up as detours and roadblocks.
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When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.
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I think the most relative thing is that women in a way that I think people haven't given us credit for, want to return to this idea about equality in marriages and financial autonomy. And if the richest women don't have financial autonomy, what does it mean for the rest of us? That's all.
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If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.
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You said you're going far away," Tamaru said. "How far away are we talking about?" "It's a distance that can't be measured." "Like the distance that separates one person's heart from another's.
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Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.
