Katherine Cecil Thurston Quotes
We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
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Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
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I normally hit the gym five times a week. I tend to do half an hour of cardio - on the treadmill or a spin class - then head for the weights. I do a lot of core work, obviously!
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We want to support Nashville, support the community there and be a part of it.
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Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code.
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I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.
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English superiority and American obedience.
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I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the centre of the world.
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I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.
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There has been a 12-year period where there has been no disciplinary action.
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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
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For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
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There was a period in my life when I was trying to write standards: songs that everybody recorded. I did a pretty good run of it.
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Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause, without obtaining it, than obtain, without deserving it; if it follow them, it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it. With inferior minds the reverse is observable.
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We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!
