Anna Deavere Smith Quotes
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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
Oliver Hudson -
The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
Ralph Marston -
I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
Dan Marino -
You just have to take control of your own performance.
Damian Lewis -
Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
Joanne Rowling -
Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
Patrick J. Adams
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Homicide is the best material I've had the chance to do.
Daniel Baldwin -
Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.
Karen Salmansohn -
I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.
Victor Webster -
In my first season I took 76 wickets at an average of less than 5 runs.
Harold Larwood
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Businesses that decide to be reality based and identify where they're vulnerable to climate impact, that start thinking about how to buffer against it, are going to be able to take advantage of shortages. When the water runs out, not everyone is in the same pickle.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
The fun part for me is to just really push that envelope.
Vicki Lawrence -
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
Bayard Taylor -
War's a fearsome thing. They'll be cunning that catches me at this wark again.
Walter Scott -
People are quite frequently eccentric.
Jane Smiley -
It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.
P. G. Wodehouse
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The purpose of the ADA was to provide clear and comprehensive national standards to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities. As a result, individuals with disabilities are now able to live in their homes and have access to new careers.
Jim Ramstad -
We run courses for government school teachers on Sundays. These teachers pay for their own food and stay; the kind of commitment you find in these people is remarkable.
Azim Premji -
I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.
Gregg Allman -
Although I am a strong political conservative, I now believe that the costs of our fruitless struggle against illegal drugs are not worth the modest benefits likely to be achieved.
Ernest Van den Haag -
I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression.
Anna Deavere Smith