Catherine Doherty (Baroness Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine de Hueck Doherty) Quotes
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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 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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Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.
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If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.
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I believe the Constitution matters: that it's not just a few pieces of paper.
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You don't know what's gonna happen, so you can't really plan: you can only go with it.
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Y Gwir Yn Erbyn Y Byd (Welsh: The truth against the world).
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Good is the enemy of great. That good is the enemy of great is not just a business problem. It is a human problem
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If there was any creature in American culture more derided than the young girl... I know people will argue with me about that, but everything girls are into gets ridiculed. I have a lot of compassion in my heart for girls in their teens and twenties who are going through this particular passage, because I get it. It makes sense!
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The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will still come and I will welcome them because they contain you.
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Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.
