Edwina Findley Quotes
I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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I remember someone telling me that when he saw the back of a woman's head, he knew that was the woman he was going marry. I laughed that away as silly talk. But I guess when a relationship has to happen, it happens seamlessly. Your partner just walks into your life.
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As for the Canadians - good actors and good directors are sometimes taken by the American market, you know, if they're good enough.
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Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living.
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When I met Michael Jordan on a basketball court at an athletic club – we hooped together in Chicago – he came to me and asked me if I wanted to do a song for his upcoming movie. I was like, 'Yeah!' I didn't even ask what it was.
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The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man: abjuration of force in the settlement of disputes between states; the assurance of human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion; the safeguarding of international peace and security.
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A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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To farm is to be placed absolutely.
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Harvey Weinstein bought our film, and he's an animal. He's got us out there campaigning and everything because honestly it's a silent black-and-white film.
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While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.
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We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going do?' You can only play so much golf.
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I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
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Somehow, even though you have less time and less money, the thing about making indie films is somehow you have another kind of resource: a human resource, where you can really look to your creative colleagues and actually ask questions that are honest.
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If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.
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If you come to our country, don't expect to be taken care of, to be looked after, that your children will be educated without charge.
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My father died when I was 14, and my mother juggled two jobs so she could make sure my sister and I were OK.
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Like my mother before me, I have always been a good speller.
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If I look at my own recordings, I think generally there is a focal point within the song and often it's the instrumental bridge or a guitar solo where we try to do something unexpected, something beautiful or weird, or beautiful because it is weird. And of course I fail half the time, but yes that is the goal, to create even a few seconds of bliss, or sadness. The electric guitar is a great instrument for doing this because it is capable of surprising you. There are so many different sounds available.
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I don't want to get pigeonholed.
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I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.
