Lexa Doig Quotes
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.
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I only made $200 a week and I had to buy my own bullets.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.
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I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
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I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.
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We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.
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My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.
