Anne Reid Quotes
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Music will always be my greatest passion.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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The whole issue is that everyone would love to do theater, but it doesn't pay enough, so to do music theater on TV, that's the ultimate dream.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.
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What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me – cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.
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I'm a Reuben kinda girl, but I'll take a BLT with avocado in a red hot minute if it comes on ciabatta.
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God.
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My great-grandfather came here as a refugee from the pogrom in Ukraine.
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Fortunately or not, expectations are always high for all my films.
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Liberty, not communism, is the most contagious force in the world.
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I'm not a very organized person.
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I want to level the playing field for people who want to purchase health insurance as individuals, and that means eliminating the exemption for employer-sponsored health care.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I want to keep my health and my sanity and be well and feel happy. Plus, I want to have fun.
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There is no restaurant anywhere in the world where I have been that I haven't been able to find something to eat.
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I'm aware of narrating certain experiences as they happen or obliterating those experiences with narrative and then those stories - not the experiences themselves - might become material for art. This kind of transformation shows up a lot in 10:04 because the book tracks the transposition of fact into fiction in the New Yorker stor.
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It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.
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'Who are you?' the minstrel asked. 'I am the Golux,' said the Golux, proudly, 'the only Golux in the world, and not a mere Device.'
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I have notebooks all over the place. I write little stories for my cabaret.
