Ann Packer Quotes
I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again and again because it fascinates me, and it's where I come from, in a sense.
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I think that, as athletes, sometimes we have the opportunities to make an impact. When it's authentic, I think there's room to share your opinion in an appropriate way.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
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I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.
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I'm attracted to men who just love what they do, have confidence in what they do and have potential to be on their own if they need to be.
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I'm not on a slander campaign to ruin Jon Jones publicly. That's not what I set out to do.
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In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.
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I think that the worst thing is realizing that mankind - that - that human beings can be so horrible to other human beings.
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Mum tries to make every race that she can.
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My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian women have been left out of politics.
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I know some authors who have gotten $25,000 advances and put it all into marketing, others who allocate $5,000 or $1,000.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
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I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
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I'm really enjoying being able to do these unhinged comedies and emotional dramas alike. I'm having a lovely time. After shooting a role that requires months of crying, it's quite nice to be able to play something very different.
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When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.
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Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.
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My nomination to be Governor was not to gratify ambition.
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When it is useful to them, men can believe a theory of which they know nothing more than its name.
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One good thing about animation is that, if you do screw up a line, they won't use it. You can keep going until it's right.
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The Gandhian influence dominated freedom struggles on the African continent right up to the 1960s because of the power it generated and the unity it forged among the apparently powerless. Nonviolence was the official stance of all major African coalitions, and the South African A.N.C. remained implacably opposed to violence for most of its existence.
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The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
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Ageing is, simply and clearly, the accumulation of damage in the body. That's all that ageing is.
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It is enough for the evil people to succeed, for the good people to do nothing.
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I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again and again because it fascinates me, and it's where I come from, in a sense.
