Agyness Deyn Quotes
I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I hate competition.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
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I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.
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I have a very genuine care for individuals; I have a very genuine sense of the power of individuals to make a difference, a very genuine belief that people matter, a very genuine belief of wanting the very best for individuals.
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From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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I completely admire my mother for raising a child with cerebral palsy at home.
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If the same energy went into marketing movies to women as they do on the other demographics we might see more of a spike.
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I bat righty.
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Having that college experience and a social life that didn't revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.
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Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.
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You can't do things unexpected in life if you're not willing to take a risk, and it's easier to risk your own life than it is for your parent to watch you take risks. It's very, very hard for parents to see children doing things that aren't a solid path. I've been through that.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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But when I look at the fact that today is 1,000 days that we have not had a budget for the United States of America, you know, the House, one of the things we did, we passed a budget last year. But that is still sitting over there at the Senate. And so we have got to get this country back on track.
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The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.
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I've never had formal drama-school training; I've just picked things up as I've gone along.
