Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
No, Mr. Marshall. I will not be browbeaten, however nicely you do it. I am done with things happening to me. From here on out, I am going to happen to things.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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I love to pitch things that I believe in and products that I love to use.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
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I love mispronunciations. I love when people mispronounce things.
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Living in New York after 14 years, I'm such an outdoors kind of person. I love gardening and building things. I like restoring old furniture.
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When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
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Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
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What happened I think on Sept. 11 was we were given graphic and clear evidence that things had changed.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
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I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or things of that nature. But also where you bust the tile to decorate pots for flowers or table tops. Lots of different things. Wherever you want it, you can mosaic just about anything. It took me about two weeks to do a big birdbath.
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I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.
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I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.
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I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
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When we have financial struggles, kids are so much more aware of things than we want them to be.
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In Malaysia, where Western culture was extremely influential, I'd grown up listening to Elvis and the Beatles and watching American movies. People wanted to be like Americans. In contrast, when I got here, I saw prosperous middle-class American college students wanting to somehow join the Third World.
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I have had my fill of words and tearful farewells.
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I used to work, part time, in a deli, in those days when your parents made you work just so you should know what work was like. And you'd make 4, 5, 6, ten dollars.
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If I had married, there is much I would not have learned of myself. This has been hard and painful and horrible. But I've learned that I'm stronger than hard, better than pain, and that with enough luck, horrible can go away.
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No, Mr. Marshall. I will not be browbeaten, however nicely you do it. I am done with things happening to me. From here on out, I am going to happen to things.
