Estelle Freedman Quotes
To quell the women’s revolt, the British first sent police, then soldiers, and finally even the Boy Scouts.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.
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I think most people who get into their 50s reassess what made sense and what didn't make sense.
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I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.
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I don't do a huge amount of physical activity. I play tennis, I work out sporadically, and I eat well and take care of myself.
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The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.
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I will remember you;Will you remember me?Don't let your life pass you by;Weep not for the memories.
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Unlike Texas Rangers, we actors don't have a stop date, so I don't know about retiring. Sometimes I want to stop acting, but then you get a good script!
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The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.
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Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
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I have a very long relationship with America. My mother grew up there and I felt to some extent that I partly belong there. I was schooled there briefly for about a year.
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I don't like watching people work if they're making art.
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I think there are a lot of Republicans who recognize that investment in adolescent girls and empowering them is good for our foreign policy. When they're educated, they tend to give back more to their communities, to rise out of poverty in a way that is good for their families and their communities and, ultimately, their countries.
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I am critical of myself.
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I have been around this long enough to know that there are no givens in this particular sport. There are too many things that can go wrong. There are too many things that can change.
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I don't like actors who try to talk directors into making their part bigger and that's really lame.
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Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece: 'For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother'.
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People of difference are always held to different standards.
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Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.Lead us lest too far we wander.Love's sweet voice is calling yonder.
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There's a larger conversation we need to have about the role of police officers, their relationship to the people as enemy or executioner, when they're not supposed to be either.
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Did you ever have the police follow you for so long, that you get suspicious about your own goddamn self? Maybe I did kill them people.
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To quell the women’s revolt, the British first sent police, then soldiers, and finally even the Boy Scouts.
