Ann Leckie Quotes
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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The very phrase 'Make America great again' implies some kind of reset to a time long since passed. A mission to restore America to a previous default setting where American economic superiority was without peer, factories and manufacturing plants were humming, and jobs were plentiful for anyone who wanted one.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as quite a dull actor. And that's the word used, and often – dull.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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I don't understand why people make me want to make music that's a join-the-dots thing by numbers. I find it really difficult when people say, 'Aw, you should have made a really big hip hop record, that would have been really good for you' or, 'You should have made a song like Lily Allen, that would have been so great.'
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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Thanks be unto God which always causeth us to triumph in Christ!
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so much about his recovery... that he was coming back to the world of the living.
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Spin class is the best for your core!
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Integrity is conforming reality to our words - in other words, keeping promises and fulfilling expectations.
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I don’t confuse abstract philosophical concepts with reality.
