Kina Grannis Quotes

My first performance was in AP Calculus when they forced me up into the front of the classroom and made me sing a song, which was really scary, but it was fun.

Kina Grannis

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Even if I play a similar role to one I've played before, I will never play it the same, I'll always try to do something different with it.

Andrew-Lee Potts

PlayWillTryNeverSameAlways

I tried to do things independently with each child.

Andie MacDowell

ChildThingsTriedI TriedEach

You write alone, but you write hoping that there will be readers who will connect with what you write, and it's so wonderful and amazing - I can't even tell you - when that actually happens.

Ann Leckie

AloneAmazingYouWillWriteTell

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

Steven Pinker

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Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

Tracy Austin

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I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.

Trevor Phillips

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So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'

Tommy Cooper

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I've never met a person who has more integrity than my husband. I respect that. There's his humor and intelligence, too, and he's really cute, all those things - but if you don't respect your partner, you'll get sick of him.

Michelle Pfeiffer

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I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all real, but not so damned real, you see.

Josiah Royce

StarsWorldYouTeachRealSee

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

Don Nickles

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It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.

Johnny Van Zant

GreatPeopleCountrySayWriteMade

You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

Clare Balding

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