Adrienne Shelly Quotes
I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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If I was a woman these days, I'd be killing motherfuckers. My handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. I would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because I would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.
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Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.
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I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues - things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.
