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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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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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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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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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.
Garry Kasparov
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Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter - my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.
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One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
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For teenage kids, they feel a pressure to sweep things under the rug because they feel like they're not important enough to have problems.
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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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.
