Karolyn Grimes Quotes
My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.
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It's better to do a film that works.
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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I received free health care.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
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Linda Thorson was a great actress with a great body, but she arrived just as 'The Avengers' was losing its appeal.
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The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.
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I don't want to set the world up for surprises.
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If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.
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High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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No doubt I enjoy being close to people in the way I dress, the way I speak, and the way I communicate with people.
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One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.
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I think, No. 1, I still have a long way to go.
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The anorexic body is held in the grip of will alone; its meaning is far from stable. What it says - 'Notice me, feed me, mother me' - is not what it means, for such attentions constitute an agonising test of that will, and also threaten to return the body to the dreaded 'normality' it has been such ecstasy to escape.
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My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.
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My brother works for a forestry commission. He writes only in green ink to persuade his bossess to make it a standard ecological colour for all forestry business. I asked him what colour ink he would use if he gave up eating whale meat and worked for a whaling company. He said whales were colour blind.
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My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.
