Catherine Helen Spence Quotes
Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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I always try to make films in such a way that it's hard to imagine how they came to be, or where they came from.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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Working manually is not considered bad in the U.S.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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Laughter and grief join hands. Always the heart Clumps in the breast with heavy stride; The face grows lined and wrinkled like a chart, The eyes bloodshot with tears and tide. Let the wind blow, for many a man shall die.
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It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.
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Companies that have strong graphic identities have built them through years of use.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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Money for me today does not really matter.
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Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
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If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
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In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha - the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance.
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The normal 21-year-old doesn't have to worry about their night out being put on TMZ.
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I've always like roadracing, but you know how it is in a family when you're young. They thought it was a little too dangerous so I started with Trials riding.
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Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.
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The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!
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Nothing is insignificant in the history of a young community, and - above all - nothing seems impossible.
