Wendy Beckett (Sister Wendy) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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If we do a little bit of insight into history, how many times have there been people doing hate discourse, blaming everything on a certain group of people. That really is the genesis of genocide, where it kind of sparks.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Working on 'Outlander' has been a delight, it really has. I had kind of forgotten what Scotland was like, and I'd turned into a bit of a Londoner.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys. But I've been able to do different things.
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
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Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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Russell T. Davies Torchwood Everything Changes
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God, our Father, has given us the life and the art of healing to protect and maintain it.
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Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two.
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Marx was the greatest of all theorists of socialism.
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'They’re just ordinary people,' Nancy said. 'You can’t expect too much of them.'
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Caxtons are mechanical birds with many wingsAnd some are treasured for their markings –They cause the eyes to meltOr the body to shriek without pain.
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I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
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This stand wasn't because I feel like I'm being put down in any kind of way. This is because I'm seeing things happen to people that don't have a voice: people that don't have a platform to talk and have their voices heard and affect change. So I'm in the position where I can do that, and I'm going to do that for people that can't.
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Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.
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In high school, it was very fashionable to be disdainful of the bourgeois suburbs, but I secretly liked them.
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Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.
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The bottom line is, whether you're in it or you're searching for it, I believe marriage is an institution worth pursuing and protecting.
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I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.
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A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.
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All great art is a visual form of prayer.
