Ann Rinaldi Quotes
As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.
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I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.
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As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.
