Cecily McMillan Quotes
I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I'd ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It was a really solidifying moment.
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His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
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Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.
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Before I realized what was happening, everything blew up. I made 'Animals' when I was in high school, and literally, from that moment, I've been living a different life. I've been touring a lot, traveling a lot, doing great shows. I've been in the studio with my biggest idols.
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There's one political party in this country, and that's the corporate party.
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Acting for kids is like playing house, you know? But growing up in Hollywood, it just made it seem possible.
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It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.
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In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.
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I wish I could have been more enlightened at 18 and learned more about men because I could have avoided all the traps.
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When you surprise yourself and you can't remember what the take felt like, then something transformative has happened.
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I've always loved music and was singing from the age of seven on karaoke.
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Not a coincidence it’s always men and boys committing mass shootings. The pattern is connected to ideas of toxic masculinity in our culture.
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After an incompletion, you can probably tell the difference.
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My kids have grown up knowing that their mom made a big investment in making sure there was art and language instruction in school and books in the library. Hopefully, they've internalized that.
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I loved being on the other side of the camera and interacting with the crew. When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It's just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.
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I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to the Iraq War. The first anti-Bush protest in Atlanta was the first protest that I'd ever been to, and I helped organize the school walkout when I was a junior. It was a really solidifying moment.
