Ann Cleeves Quotes
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I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.
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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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There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.
Colson Whitehead -
If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.
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The Americans invaded a country without understanding what eight years of a war with Iran had meant, how that traumatized Iraq. They didn't appreciate what they support for a decade of sanctions in Iraq had done to Iraq and the bitterness that it created and that it wiped out the middle class.
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I think George Mitchell was good for Maryland in the sense that he helped me get elected. It doesn't get any better than that from here on.
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Shetland's influences are far more Scandinavian than Celtic.
