Lois Wyse Quotes
I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
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My fear with Trump was always that he didn't have great solutions.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.
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I read 'Song of Solomon' by Toni Morrison in college, and it just blew my mind.
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When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
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Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.
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I have a theory that since everyone is always dieting, no one at a convention dinner ever eats the potatoes. Therefore, they go back to the kitchen uneaten. And the next night they reappear at another convention. Therefore, one should never eat the potatoes. Who knows? They may be six or seven years old.
