Cathy Freeman Quotes
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
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In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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The anxiety I feel when I'm late is nothing like the anxiety I feel when I'm on time.
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I never laugh or smile when I am writing. When I come home for lunch after writing all morning, my wife says I look like I just came home from a funeral. This is not bragging. This is an illness.
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I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are actually doing a workout. Being outdoors in the sun and the salt water is great for freeing your mind and feeling alive.
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We were very fortunate that the carriers weren't in the harbor.
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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
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I don't use a computer in writing at all. I'm sort of old-fashioned about it.
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When I recently spent a night at a homeless shelter, I was dismayed that members of the middle class had moved in and that earning above the minimum wage did not protect adults from having to share a room with dozens of others.
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An author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart's blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.
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During the first World War women in the United States had a chance to try their capacities in wider fields of executive leadershipin industry. Must we always wait for war to give us opportunity? And must the pendulum always swing back in the busy world of work and workers during times of peace?
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That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.
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People could see in me who I am now, an Olympic champ, the best in the world.
