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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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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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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My maternal grandmother would sit, before binge-watching existed, and watch 'Poirot' until the cows came home. You couldn't pull her away from it.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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I don't mean it to sound egomaniacal, but in a way, for me, it was very useful to imagine that I was the only one who was taking pen in hand. I'd always been told that it was impossible to be published, so I was writing only for myself.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
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We were criticized throughout that investigation for being too thorough, for taking too long. But time has proved the correctness of that approach.
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All great art is a visual form of prayer.
