Ann Cleeves Quotes
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I was a fan of T-Pain's music growing up. I bought 'Epiphany' and 'Rappa Ternt Sanga.'
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I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.
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Insensibility, of all kinds, and on all occasions, most moves my imperial displeasure.
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India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
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When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.
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Don't misquote me as wanting to hurt homosexual people in any way. That would be a dastardly lie.
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I grew up in Manhattan, and I've always had all kinds of people around me. I've always had a very 'live and let live' point of view.
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My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.
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Studies show that recipients of Section 8 vouchers have tended to choose moderately poor neighborhoods that were already on the decline, not low-poverty neighborhoods.
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I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
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There's still people who think me being married to a sista is an act. What, you think I'd make that up for a persona?
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It's been quite the experience for two brothers who were Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, who had no idea that they were going to end up in the entertainment industry. To be where we are now, making features, TV shows and getting a hundred million views online is kind of an amazing thing.
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Black and brown communities are significantly and disproportionately impacted by deficiencies in our criminal justice system.
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The first thing I did that was at all in the public eye, other than on stage, was 'Oz,' in which I played the head of the Aryan Brotherhood in a maximum-security prison.
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When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.
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Philosophers are moral, and poets are picturesque about the country.
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A man must be perfectly crazy who, where there is tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands,...
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Since I was a child, I have had this feeling that the most important work I'd do would be with my family.
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'Have you read all of them?'
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I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings.
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I did not particularly enjoy modeling. I felt I was only utilizing 10 or 20 percent of my abilities. In India, it's just another job.
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Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.
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Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.
