Antonia Thomas Quotes
I've felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from 'Misfits'.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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When you fall in love, you become weak.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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I do periodically ride a bus with my kids.
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My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.
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China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is a disservice to itself.
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The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did not bother even to make the records of births, marriages, and deaths that they required of themselves by law. Nor did they write accounts of what they were up to for the benefit of posterity.
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I'm not going to be bullied or pushed around by the group of the day. You've got to have political courage. You've got to have your own inner beliefs.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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We need a spirit of victory, a spirit that will carry us to our rightful place under the sun, a spirit which can recognize that we, as inheritors of a proud civilization, are entitled to our rightful place on this planet. If that indomitable spirit were to arise, nothing can hold us from achieving our rightful destiny.
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If a weakly mortal is to do anything in the world besides eat the bread thereof, there must be a determined subordination of the whole nature to the one aim no trifling with time, which is passing, with strength which is only too limited.
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Spectroscopy can probably answer the question, 'Is there anybody out there?' Are we alone?
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My father always had people around the house who were famous psychics.
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In capitalist society however where social reason always asserts itself only post festum great disturbances may and must constantly occur.
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Let wise men piece the world together with wisdom Or poets with holy magic. Hey-di-ho.
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One may say 'the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.'
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I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.
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I've just sort of gone with the flow and I ended up here. Crazy. I'm not going to start planning anything, my life is way better than anybody could have planned it.
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To start your working life after you've graduated from school and university, it takes you a long time to get started in the real world. Today, kids are not out into the workforce until 27 or 30 years of age. By the time I was 30, I had six kids and 60 trucks.
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I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I also compare it to paint effects found on the streets. This approach is superimposed on a sculptural surface that is also 'painterly.'
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I've felt the pressure of wanting to be known as a young actress rather than just Alisha from 'Misfits'.
