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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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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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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Just like all my novels, 'Illusion' is a good way to observe where Frank Peretti was in his life when he wrote it.
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Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn.
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The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
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I had serious reservations about putting my son in the public schools in my area. I have a tremendous amount of fear for the future of my boy. He's nine-and- a-half and dark-skinned. By the time he's 12 or 13, who knows who he's going to be identifying with in these days when you get shot down for wearing expensive Nikes to school...I've heard that if a Latino makes it to 19 years of age, he has a good chance of surviving into adulthood. Up until then, you don't know.
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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.
