Christine McVie Quotes
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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The food system is not a free market. In this country, we impose reasonably high standards of animal welfare - but we haven't applied the same standards to food we import, so all we're really doing is exporting cruelty from Britain elsewhere, and at the same time undermining our farmers.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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I love singing and performing. I'm always singing. Even if I'm at school or in the car, I'm always singing. My mom said ever since I could talk, I was singing.
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I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.
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I am proud of all of the products in the Ed Hardy family.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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Providing quantitative guidance about the meaning of 'long-term price stability' could have several advantages, including further reducing public uncertainty about monetary policy and anchoring long-term inflation expectations even more effectively.
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As long as I can make a phone call and do a WhatsApp, I'm fine.
