Iain Duncan Smith Quotes
We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I have definitely worked on that... being efficient and also being smarter with my pressure.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
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Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
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I was authorized to do everything that I did.
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I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.
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Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.
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Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.
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My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book.
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I understand why creative people like dark, but American audiences don't like dark. They like story. They do not respond to nervous breakdowns and unhappy episodes that lead nowhere. They like their characters to be a part of the action. They like strength, not weakness, a chance to work out any dilemma.
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When I began singing, it was the first time I was happy in my life. As a baby, I would stop crying when I heard a great singer.
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We have to ensure that our immigration system works in the interests of Britain, enabling us to make a realistic promise to our young school-leavers. It is part of our contract with the British people.
