Ciara (Ciara Princess Harris) Quotes
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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We are one of the richest countries in the world, and there is absolutely no reason why anyone should have to live in poverty.
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There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write.
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I did indulge myself in a lot of history reading, to inform myself as to who the real woman was. As far as other actresses’ portrayals, though, I tried to stay clear. It muddles your process, I find.
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There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.
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I remember sitting one time doing 100 interviews in a day, and they're all television interviews and they're kind of - and you just sit there and they bring these people in and out, and in out.
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As long as I know that I give my best every time, I can sleep well knowing that.
