Celia Rees Quotes
You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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How often do we see a Muslim woman who is intelligent and independent, and has a voice of her own and is career-driven, on American TV?
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
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A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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The end result of my personal story is that I became a really good drummer, and I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn't have without this really tough conductor and this really cutthroat hostile environment I was in.
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You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.
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With instrumental music, it is traditionally hard to get exposure.
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An adaptable company is one that captures more than its fair share of new opportunities. It's always redefining its 'core business' in ways that open up new avenues for growth.
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Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.
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Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
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Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
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'It must be nice to think there is a true reality,' says Miss Callendar. 'I've always found reality a matter of great debate.'
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
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And all at once I lost my breathAnd all at once was scared to deathFor all at once I owned the earth and sky.Now I've met Miss JonesWe'll keep on meeting till we die,Yes, Miss Jones and I.
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A newspaper is always a weapon in somebody's hands.
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I've always believed that as actors, one of the biggest advantages of being in the film business - not just of being actors, but being in this industry - is the fact that you get to travel so much, and you get to see places that you probably would not if you went just as a tourist.
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When people told me that I couldn't do something, I wanted to always prove them wrong. That comes a lot from people always bullying me because of my size and not thinking that I could do anything to impact the world or inspire other people.
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Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
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I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
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Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.
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You may wish me luck, or curse me for a damnable pirate, but do not look for me. I will be gone to parts beyond the sea.
