Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
"Family isn’t a matter of history. Or biology,” he said softly. “It’s a matter of choice.”
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Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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It was a difficult second record. I had moments where I couldn't write; had moments where I was writing lots. It was just a massive learning process for me.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short stories or essays. And I've always thought the best place for my photographs was inside books of my own creation.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.
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I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.
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I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
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I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.
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You are what you eat, and you make what you hear.
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Food Stamps helped keep me from going hungry, and Pell grants helped me go to college.
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It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to talk when he really knows he has something to say.
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Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.
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When you are in unrelenting, excruciating and debilitating pain that never goes away for years on end, your life is over.
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At my school, when kids went into the army at 16, they didn't do it in a gung-ho, Tom Cruise, 'Born on the Fourth of July' way. They were generally - and I hope this doesn't offend them - the more vulnerable members of the class. They enlisted seeking family, and they didn't always find it.
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Growing up in a very big family, working together and playing together, that is something that has been part of my life since ever I was born. It has advantages and disadvantages. It's like an older style of living where everyone works in the family business.
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"Family isn’t a matter of history. Or biology,” he said softly. “It’s a matter of choice.”
