Margot Kidder Quotes
We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where we are headed. The problem is, a good portion of what we choose to remember is about willed forgetting. Which we all do, I believe, to protect ourselves from what is too difficult.
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I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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I used to hate any batsman who would not get out in my deliveries.
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I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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Kids called me 'Skeletor' as a kid because I was so skinny.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.
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Win, lose or draw, you're all my cousins and I love you.
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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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I realize how much my life lines up with artists like Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke. My sound comes from church, but the stories come from actual personal experience, being out there in the streets living life.
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'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'
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We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works.
