Agnes Smedley Quotes
Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.
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Our suspicions are being confirmed that Nashi will serve as a cover for storm brigades that will use violence against democratic organisations.
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I love Lancome's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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I'm not really into weight training.
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I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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I am happy to say that everyone that I have met in my life, I have gained something from them; be it negative or positive, it has enforced and reinforced my life in some aspect.
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Warnings about children being overscheduled, racing from one enriching activity to the next, first surfaced in the early 20th century.
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I would like to see 'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole adapted.
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Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
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I'm a big believer that your life is basically a sum of all the choices you make. The better your choices, the better opportunity to lead a happy life.
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You can't satirise darts, because it's hyper-real as it is; there's already enough over-the-top madness to it.
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'You guys have a death list?' Ronan broke in. 'That is fucking dark. Am I on it?''Some days, I wish,' Blue said.
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Television and film acting is really fun because you are working with other people and you are not completely responsible for the outcome of the project.
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I mean, I would have loved to have kept on being a big television star. If that's the way things would have broke, I would have loved to have done that. I just didn't really want to continue and be someone who took whatever was offered.
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As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.
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I would avoid any product that contains genetically modified (GMO) corn, because there are still questions regarding the long-term health effects of genetically altered foods on the human body have not been thoroughly tested. Sugars are also sneaked into tons of different foods, especially foods marketed to kids. Again, study the labels carefully before buying.
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In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language and architecture left behind. These are the building blocks of civilization we call culture. These are what we call 'the arts.
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
