Fanny Kemble Quotes
Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.
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My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
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There's a lot of heartache because you don't always win. You need loads of determination.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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I do not have any pets. We travel too much.
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If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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You don't have the opportunity to win an Emmy unless you're given the opportunity to play certain kinds of roles.
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I really like crop tops. I like how you can dress them up or down, with jeans or a skirt and heels. I like to be showy and cute. I don't want to be in just a jacket and pants and boots.
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We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.
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The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underly the commodities that we use on a daily basis. And so food is like that.
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I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club.
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Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost every woman I know is good for nothing in purse and person for a month afterwards, done up physically, and broken down financially.
