Ann Cleeves Quotes
I especially don't like the graphic violence against women and children often depicted in novels such as 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and others. I'm not sure if it's being done just to entertain or whether it really is necessary for the characters involved.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
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I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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My role models were always the Pacinos and the Oldmans, the guys who get dirty with their characters, and I arrived in L.A. during the big boom of 'Dawson's Creek.' I was getting cast as the boy next door, or the friend of the jock. I thought, 'Did I really have to do all that studying?'
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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If you move boldly in the direction of your goals, unseen forces will come to your aid.
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It's estimated for every $1 billion we spend on road construction, nearly 48,000 jobs are created.
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I've definitely had some tough schoots. I'd say everything that I've done has had some sort of challenge that I've had to overcome. But it's the most satisfying feeling once you have and that's what I love about acting, sort of signing on to it knowing that it's going to be challenging.
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Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.
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Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
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I especially don't like the graphic violence against women and children often depicted in novels such as 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and others. I'm not sure if it's being done just to entertain or whether it really is necessary for the characters involved.
