Alycia Debnam-Carey Quotes
When I was younger, I could get that white-knuckle grip of holding on to an idea and not wanting to let it go.
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.
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In the British Special Air Service, combat fitness is all about running.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.
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I'm the kind of guy who always pushes really hard.
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I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.
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My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul. They have an incredible record collection, all vinyl, of some of the best artists, in my eyes, that you can come across.
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I had the longest, biggest bowl cut. It looked like I had a perfectly straightened mop on the top of my head.
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Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jivin', too.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'
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I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.
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I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
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In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.
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The male claim that females find fulfillment through motherhood and sexuality reflects what males think
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In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we shall one day find that these are our enemies, too.
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Diplomacy, n. is the art of letting somebody else have your way.
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Not unlike our country's history, my personal history was founded upon an unfortunate history of racial conflict between black and white.
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The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.
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I do bring my teaching together with my writing. I make students write in class, and do the same prompts I give them. I'm always on the lookout for teaching poems - poems that inspire me and my students to write poems in response.
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When I was younger, I could get that white-knuckle grip of holding on to an idea and not wanting to let it go.
