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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I think our civilization is minimal enough without underlining it. Sculpture as a created object in space should enrich, not reflect, and should be beautiful. Beauty is its function.
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The finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music.
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A book is still atemporal. It is you, in silence, hearing voices in your head, unfolding at a time that has nothing to do with the timescale of reading. And for the hours that we retreat into this moratorium, with the last form of private and silent human activity that isn't considered pathological, we are outside of time.
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I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!
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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.
