Cathy Rigby (Cathleen Roxanne Rigby) Quotes
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As a writer, I absorb stories, allow them to churn within my own head and heart - often for years - until I find a way of telling them that fits both my time and temperament.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
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The experience of reading a book is always unique. I believe that you render a version of the story, when you read a book, in a way that is unique and special to each person who reads it.
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Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over - except when they are different.
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I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights-the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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The national Log Cabin Republicans are ridiculous. They’re not conservative at all. I don’t even think they’re gay - they’re bi (partisan). GOProud is comprised of real conservatives who happen to be gay. (Same with the Texas LCRs, for whom I’ve been signing books for years.)
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I count myself as not only just an artist, not only as a singer, but a business woman. I write my own songs; I write my own video treatments, manage other artists. I write for other artists; it's not just about getting on stage and singing a song.
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You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out.
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My mom was a professional. My dad and mom met each other in a movie called 'New Faces of 1937.' My mom went under the name Thelma Leeds, and she did a few movies, and she was really a great singer, and when she married my dad and started to have a family, she sang at parties.
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It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.'
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I wholeheartedly believe that travel leads to open minds and contributes to a better cultural understanding and acceptance of people from around the world.
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My parents instilled in me that life was going to be very difficult and that I'd have to work for everything.
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Cisco has never and will never work with a foreign government of any type for the purpose of restricting political speech.
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I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.
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All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good.
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I never realized until recently how much my life parallels Peter Pan.
