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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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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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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It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.
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Burton Cummings joining the Guess Who in January 1966 changed my life forever. It's been a rocky affiliation, no doubt. One journalist once described our relationship as the longest running soap opera in Canadian history. That may be a bit oversimplified.
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The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.
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A person who sees a problem is a human being; a person who finds a solution is visionary; and the person who goes out and does something about it is an entrepreneur.
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There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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And the first step, as you know, is always what matters most, particularly when we are dealing with those who are young and tender. That is the time when they are taking shape and when any impression we choose to make leaves a permanent mark.
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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.
