Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
...what started with those simple requirements – make her notice me, but guarantee that nobody understood how I felt – turned into the cruelest thing I have ever done to another human.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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My parents actually ran drag clubs in Australia, which is how I grew up. It was normal for me. It was my normal. I knew the other kids didn't do it, but for me, it was life, and nothing was wrong with it. I would see nothing wrong with Beyonce having a drag queen nanny. And why not? Everyone needs one! And a great gay man in their life.
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Africa is the future.
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Thrillers provide the reader with a safe escape into a dangerous world where the stakes are as high as can be imagined with unpredictable outcomes. It's a perfect genre in which to explore hard issues of good and evil, a mirror that allows the reader to see both the good and not so good in themselves.
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The craziest thing I've ever done to get a guy's attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn't know he worked there.
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Everything goes in waves. Evolution goes in waves. The ocean goes in waves. Energy goes in waves. Sound travels in waves.
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If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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I can't really live outside Jamaica. I can be away, but only for a while.
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Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
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Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
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These machines keep us alive, while other machines are coming to kill us. Interesting, isn't it? The power to give life, and the power to end it
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...what started with those simple requirements – make her notice me, but guarantee that nobody understood how I felt – turned into the cruelest thing I have ever done to another human.
