Ann Richards Quotes
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My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.
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I would love to get back to the big leagues as a coach, possibly a manager. I would love that opportunity.
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Not everything has to be a couples' event.
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We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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I never set out to do this; I never set out to say, 'Can I break this record?' Then all of a sudden, the preparations made for the celebration put pressure on me. I said, 'Okay, I have to get there.' After 2,130, there was sort of a realization it was a foregone conclusion you're going to play tomorrow.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.
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If there is a horrific attack on this country like 9/11, the American people will demand we go to war and settle accounts with those who did it. But America's appetite for intervention, for nation building, for democracy crusades, is fully sated.
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Tanpinar presciently feared that to embrace the western conception of progress was to be mentally enslaved by a whole new epistemology, one that compartmentalised knowledge and concealed an instrumental view of human beings as no more than things to be manipulated.
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When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.
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It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not that common!
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Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.
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On my foot it says, 'The best is yet to come,' and that's there because I really believe it.
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Unlike a well-defined, precise game like Russian roulette, where the risks are visible to anyone capable of multiplying and dividing by six, one does not observe the barrel of reality.
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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
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I'll be dead and you'll think about this day and wonder which of us was more the slave, you or me!
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Our party needs the youth but the youth also need the parties to help them organise. Neither will succeed in overthrowing this regime without the other. We don't want the international community to label our revolution an Islamic one.
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Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'
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The guys have told me not to quit my day job.
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Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.
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We're living proof that nice guys always finish last.
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Both my father and I remodeled our homes but were quite careful about preserving the history and unique character of the community.
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Oh, I would probably have raised more hell.
