Anne Reid Quotes
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Edie Sedgwick had a cool style; she pushed the envelope for the time.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!
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As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.
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Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
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If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.
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Panama is a country that's been dealing with issues of identity since its very birth. It was born on Wall Street. It was born out of engineering construction. It was the canal. Because of the canal, the country was born, so the country has been divided into pro-canal and against-canal people for so long.
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I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.
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Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
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Don't Cry Daddy is a pretty sad song. He got to the end of it and it was just real quiet and Elvis says, I'm gonna cut that someday for my daddy. And, by God, he did. He lived up to his word.
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It is individuals who must be encouraged to undertake the unprecedented - and unprecedentedly profitable - effort to prevent the annihilation of the human race.
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I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
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I've been acting since I was 5, literally since I could walk, and I've always said, 'I think one day I have to be in a fat suit.'
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To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.
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You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.
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... true civil disobedience ... compels the state to resort to power.
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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
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I can sit here on the couch and hear you say, "You're very feminine and very attractive," but I have always struggled with that.
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When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.
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I'm quite surprised I ever got married in the first place.
