Catherine Helen Spence Quotes
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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You work with some people, you see a spark in them and you can't help praising them. But everyone has their own destiny. No one can make anyone. Who reaches where and when, is all written.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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If you do a Western that's funny, there's no way people don't call it a spoof or a parody, even though it may not be.
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I was eight years old when Miley Cyrus made her debut on Disney Channel's 'Hannah Montana' and beginning my senior year of high school when she delivered the VMAs performance that single-handedly butchered the teddy-bear industry.
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The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.
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I've had every known chemical-cocaine, booze-and tobacco is the hardest one in the world for me to quit. You watch old flicks? It's suggestion by looking at something: You see a cigarette, and it makes you want to smoke!
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Imams and muftis and kathis sat here on cushions, turbaned elders who had risen above the squalor of the flesh. The heat was tamed by wide-eyed boys with feathery fans. One of the muftis much admired one of these boys, and he stroked his buttocks with a gentle hand. The smell of the holy was wafted towards entering Bonaparte, who said with care:
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Celebrities say the darnedest things.
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I like playing characters that have a prickly armor because when you start to see the cracks and some heart come out, it gives the audience something to look forward to.
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I have an organic garden and love being able to say, 'I'm going to see what I can pick to throw in my salad.'
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I love the rush of being creative. I really think I live for it.
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I don't think, 'Oh, you know, I'm crazy and zany.'
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It was only when I moved to New York that I realized tall is good.
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I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.
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I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.
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I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.
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Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.
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And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart.
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A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.
