People Quotes
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I'm one of those people who can't watch themselves do anything. I could never watch myself wrestle. I've probably watched a handful of my matches. I never could watch myself. Even when I played college basketball, I hated film days... 'Oh God, I'm gonna watch myself screw up.' I'm just one of those people who can't watch their work.
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Patty Griffin is iconic, and there's no other word to really describe her. She is iconic for a lot of people - not only for me but for a lot of fans. Her voice is one of a kind, and she's such an important figure in the American music scene.
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But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.
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I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people. I was never quite as groomed as everyone else, never quite as fit as anyone else. I didn't have my protein shake and my vitamins.
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Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.
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There's a natural antipathy on the part of the voters to a continuation of globalization as we know it. It's simply a code word today for bad trade deals that disadvantage the American people.
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I can read people, and if the other person doesn't want to say anything, I'm fine with that. People say things when it's time to say them.
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Frankly, people buying a home to let should not be squeezing out families who can't afford a home to buy.
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Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel.
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A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.
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Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
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Apparently, I hear from people I always play strong women. I don't see them that way.
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I got several litmus tests for songs, but usually the people at the publishing company... they're straight-shooters.
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I think some of my favorite Australian films were shot by people that are not Australian. And I think when Dean Semler did 'Dances with Wolves,' for instance, that's a very different-looking Western than what you've seen much of before. It's very rich, color-wise. But we've got our own very proud thing going on.
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A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.
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We must stand on principle and practicality, and we should be very clear that a policy aimed at driving out 10 or 11 million people is not a good one.
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[Kay] was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.
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A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.
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People are friendlier in New York than London.
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What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?
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People always assume that I'm some sort of party girl, and that's such a misconception because I like staying home.
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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
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Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life, we may have to put up with tedious people, but not in novels.
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As an actor, that's the best thing you can do, really take people along on a story and tell them something.
