Constance Markievicz Quotes
Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very young age. And reading seemed to naturally progress to writing.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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It's a big theme throughout my music to just embrace everything about your own mind and to always feel powerful. It's not just a feminine thing, but for men, too, whether they feel weak, or strong or crazy or reclusive. I want everyone to feel powerful no matter what little beasts they have in their head.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.
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I had a great drama teacher in high school, and that's when I started to learn about the history of theater.
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What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?
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Some people are saying, 'Justin Bieber is racist.' Is he? I don't know.
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Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver.
