Cynthia Voigt Quotes
I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.
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Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.
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People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.
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The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.
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Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.
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I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.
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My music is really fun music, with some pan-African and pan-American influences.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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Believe it or not, I like the 'Rumble.' It's extremely unpredictable and over-the-top. Everyone in the WWE universe looks forward to it. It becomes that one event each year where people center around.
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My first real kiss was actually on the set of 'The Vampire's Assistant' with Jessica Carlson who plays my crush in the movie. I was 15, she was 14. It was actually her first kiss too, so it was an interesting situation!
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Mother had to support herself at age 18 because it was during the depression and when my grandfather lost the farm and there was no place for her; she worked as an assistant to a maid.
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She is never more herself than when she destroys herself.
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Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
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I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.
