Cecily McMillan Quotes
I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.
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The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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I love being in public places, but I can't stand long, drawn-out music festivals.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.
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In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Every sitcom needs their straight man or straight woman.
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The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.
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God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
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I loved 'Get Out.'
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Without the gospel, a gathering of people, though they claim otherwise, cannot be an authentic church.
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I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
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To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.
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It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another's property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.
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There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.
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I think in short order all of us need to act like we are citizens with not only rights, but also duties.
