Adelaide Anne Procter Quotes
Seated one day at the organ,I was weary and ill at ease,And my fingers wandered idlyOver the noisy keys. I do not know what I was playing,Or what I was dreaming then;But I struck one chord of music,Like the sound of a great Amen.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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I play as I feel.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.
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Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle.
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We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.
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Seated one day at the organ,I was weary and ill at ease,And my fingers wandered idlyOver the noisy keys. I do not know what I was playing,Or what I was dreaming then;But I struck one chord of music,Like the sound of a great Amen.
