Sharleen Spiteri Quotes
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
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How has The Grand Illusion held up over the years? It is not enough to say that it has retained its power. Not only has the stature of the film remained undiminished by the passage of time (except in a few minor details), but the innovation, the audacity, and, for want of a better word, the modernity of the direction have acquired an even greater impact.
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What the eyes see, the heart must believe.
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Let the work speak for itself.
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I get to be in movies where it's mostly dialogue, and I want to be in something, that for me, feels like kickboxing.
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Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.
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Become a possibilitarian.
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Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.
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You have to eat at a certain time and eat properly.
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Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.
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Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.
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Time passes, Time the consoler, Time the anodyne.
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The emergence of a hardware product from an African company marks a phase-change point for tech invention. The BRCK shows that great ideas can come from anywhere, that innovation comes from solving real problems with constrained resources.
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I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
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There is nothing better for me than to bring the bells in, in Scotland.
