Antonia Thomas Quotes
It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I've always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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I was never conscious that I was becoming an icon or I'm not an icon, because my family, my kids, my husband keep me down-to-earth.
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I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father time in there.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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For very few people is there a time when you, quote unquote, make it.
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Our sites are run by the people who use them. We just pretty much provide the infrastructure.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that grows palpable when one has finished a canto of Dante, he says, is quite different from the silence that grows palpable when one has reached the end of Oedipus at Colonus. The most terrible thing that has happened to people today, he says, is that they have grown frightened of silence. Instead of seeking it as a friend and as a source of renewal they now try in every way they can to shut it out... the fear of silence is the fear of loneliness, he says, and the fear of loneliness is the fear of silence. People fear silence, he says, because they have lost the ability to trust the world to bring about renewal. Silence for them means only the recognition that they have been abandoned... How can people find the strength to be happy if they are so terrified of silence?
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It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.
