Alethea Kontis Quotes
I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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The kind of classic pose of a female model is to look kind of sexy and a bit annoyed.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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My core belief is that if you're complaining about something for more than three minutes, two minutes ago you should have done something about it.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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When I was at drama school, I remember going to Amsterdam for new year and sitting with friends on the front of a P&O ferry in the wind, having some sort of 'Titanic' moment, declaring ourselves to be the new kings of theatre.
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When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.
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I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I grew fond of acting rather late. And that was because I was not getting any job. I had a few friends in Delhi who were associated with theater. They took me to see some plays in Delhi and Baroda. That led me to believe the I could also act. And it was after that I joined National School of Drama in 1993.
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Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.
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In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesame Street,' my grandson's growing up watching 'Dora The Explorer.' So we are sort of saturated with American culture from the day we're born, and to those of those who do have an ear for it, it's second nature.
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There are a lot of possibilities I'm looking at for the future, but I'm very insistent on not limiting myself.
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Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks.
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
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People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the biggest misconception is, when you think about me, when you think about my name, I don't want you to think about design or clothes or music. I want you to think about a person that's just trying to help people.
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Under the French system, you have to take into consideration that every five years, the president is directly elected by the people. He's the one that has the legitimacy.
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When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too.
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The distribution of troops devoted to the defence of a place includes a garrison, an occupying force, numerically as weak as possible; a reserve as strong as possible, designed for counterattacking and for providing itself, at the moment it goes into action, with a security service which will guard it from any possible surprise.
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I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.
