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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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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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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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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I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.
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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
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I was at a public school until I was in sixth grade when I moved to New York.
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I think businesses live longer that are on the stock market.
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Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.
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I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.
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There's a motto, if you fail and fail, you come back and try again. I've had a couple of failures here in America and close calls, especially in Major Championships, and it's great to finally, finally win.
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The town was abuzz with talk of the King's animals. We were fed regularly, and the King and Queen quite often enjoyed feeling my abdomen to see if I weren't pregnant; they were extraordinarily eager to have a whole family of little animals like us.
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"Family isn’t a matter of history. Or biology,” he said softly. “It’s a matter of choice.”
