Brenda Novak Quotes
Maybe being a big star isn’t the only life that will make you happy. Maybe the joy isn’t in the end result—in the success. Maybe it’s in living, loving—and trying.
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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I'm an emotional actor. When I'm doing a scene, I really believe it. I live the part as long as I'm in the scene.
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I did go through a phase where I played videogames quite often, but I haven't in a few years.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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I am an ambitious person, but I am not ambitious in the sense that I want jobs only for the sake of them... I am here to do things I think are worthwhile. I am always careful that the political positions I take are consistent with good policy. I would not want to be prime minister of Australia at any price.
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When you are racing in an able-bodied competition, you're all equal and you go out there and try your best, and that's what counts.
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I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.
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Consider and act with reference to the true ends of existence. This world is but the vestibule of an immortal life. Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
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How can this cosmic religious experience be communicated from man to man, if it cannot lead to a definite conception of God or to a theology? It seems to me that the most important function of art and of science is to arouse and keep alive this feeling in those who are receptive.
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Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.
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I'm not much of a famous-person friend. I've hung out with Brooke Shields and I don't think I've ever seen that kind of pure face recognition, but I keep a low profile.
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Communities are suffering, children are suffering, and our immigration policy appears in disarray.
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The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers.
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Walking out into the bush still feels the same as when I first came to Kenya in 1989, on the day the Berlin Wall came down.
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I don't think Brexit is going to help people in Britain.
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Break, break, break, On thy cold gray stones, oh sea! And I would that my tongue could utter The thoughts that arise in me.
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I remember when I got pregnant, I had several peers of mine, women, who said to me, 'Now that you're pregnant, you're probably gonna give up the music thing, right?' I was like, 'I'm not crippled. I'm just having a baby.'
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Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
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Maybe being a big star isn’t the only life that will make you happy. Maybe the joy isn’t in the end result—in the success. Maybe it’s in living, loving—and trying.
