Courtney Milan (Heidi Bond) Quotes
Then I’ll have to succeed three times as hard as they want me to fail. You, of all people, should understand that.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
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I've been very clear. I won. I didn't commit the crime.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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I've got a bunch of books... I rely on funny books and movies to cheer me up. Oh, but I must say, I do have the world's most perfect husband, so a cuddle from him always cheers me up. He's a good guy.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.
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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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Getting in and out of a character takes its own time for me.
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I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
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It's fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair.
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I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
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I'm active in PAX, which is a gun awareness organization. We treat gun safety as a public health issue.
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In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.
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My books start almost before I realise it. Once in a while, some accident causes an idea to rise to the surface and say: 'now.'
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It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.
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A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
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Then I’ll have to succeed three times as hard as they want me to fail. You, of all people, should understand that.
