Cecily McMillan Quotes
I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.
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I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available, and we offer our services.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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There must be a thread in everything I choose to take on, and I can't say it's a calculated thread, but I think you end up doing the work that's resonating with you.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
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There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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Intelligence is usually easy to tell in a 10-minute conversation. Determination is harder.
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So in this idea, then, everybody is fundamentally the ultimate reality. Not God in a politically kingly sense, but God in the sense of being the self, the deep-down basic whatever there is. And you're all that, only you're pretending you're not. And it's perfectly OK to pretend you're not, to be perfectly convinced, because this is the whole notion of drama.
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If I could act likeThis was my real life,And not some cage where I've been placed,Well then, I could tell youThe truth like I used toAnd not be afraid of sounding fake.
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In the public's mind, Special Forces are often confused with the 'door kickers' of Special Operations Forces - such as SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force - who are the United States' elite counterterrorism operators.
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My mother, Laura Sumner, had cerebral palsy. She was born absolutely fine, but after about three days, she started having convulsions that left her with a condition that would confine her to a wheelchair her entire life.
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I want to play women my own age, rather than artificially 'de-age' myself so that I can play women who are younger or much younger than I am. I want to grow into those kind of more mature parts, not try and keep them at bay for as long as I possibly can.
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I love 'House' - I love 'House' so much.
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Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
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I would like to remain an actress, but am very anxious to direct and produce.
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I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.
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People are funny in the way that they choose to express themselves.
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I had a sense that my mother was struggling, when I was a kid, working twelve hour days, making $12,000 a year with two kids in a trailer park.
