Lemn Sissay Quotes
To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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At the end, it's your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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Spiritual formation is character formation. Everyone gets a spiritual formation. It's like education. Everyone gets an education; it's just a matter of which one you get.
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One of these topics we talk about with the team on our 'Competition Wednesday' is iron sharpening iron. That's the process we go through to get each other ready, and that's why we have some periods where we get to compete against one another.
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I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
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You can talk good ideas out of existence.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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I came to Congress on the promise of cutting wasteful government spending. There are plenty of examples of the government playing loose with taxpayer money, but none more so than how we spend our foreign aid dollars.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!
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It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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Unlike the United States Congress, which mostly forbids outside employment, state legislatures are generally composed of people with other careers.
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It's pretty hard to stand in the queue auditioning to play a gynaecologist on 'Holby City' when you've just played Mandela. You think, 'Actually, I want to challenge myself.'
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When working with classical musicians, it is important to be clear as possible in the score about what my intentions are. Because there isn't a lot of rehearsal time, especially at the ballet, it's best if everything is written in the score.
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To Western parents that want to adopt a child, I would say to people that money is not everything, wealth does not matter.
