Celia Thaxter (Celia Laighton Thaxter) Quotes
When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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Reconciliation is a decision that you take in your heart.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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I knew the ribosome was going to be the focus of Nobel prizes. It stands at the crossroads of biology, between the gene and what comes out of the gene. But I had convinced myself I was not going to be a winner.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.
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The view of Earth is spectacular.
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I believe a democracy needs men and women of conviction in its positions of leadership in order for us to succeed. That's the subject of 'A Perfect Candidate,' a film I made 20 years ago about Oliver North and Charles Robb.
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I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
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NBC's pilot season of 1994 is legendary in the business. In a world where failure is commonplace, we midwifed the birth of both 'Friends' and 'ER'. While 'ER' came essentially out of the blue, we'd been casting around for a 'Friends'-like show for some time at the network.
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It is not human to be without shame and without desire.
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At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.
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Now I lay me down to sleep Knowing that your lenses peep Now I eat my daily bread And into the tape spool I'll be fed
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I am very much obliged to my dear little George for his message - for his love at least; his duty, I suppose, was only in consequence of some hint of my favourable intentions towards him from his father or mother. I am sincerely rejoiced, however, that I ever was born, since it has been the means of procuring him a dish of tea.
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Film becomes a living organism. After awhile, it begins to tell you what it needs, and you're usually best listening.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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Wouldn't it be awesome if we had a jetpack that wasn't a death trap? The problem is that it is going to be so power inefficient. I just couldn't live with that... it would be as loud as a motorcycle.
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Stretching was a major part of my preparation.
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When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.
