Chris Patten Quotes
About Hong Kong: No other place has quite the same blend of East and West, ancient and modern, spectacular and humdrum.
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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When in life do you get a black and white printout that says this is what you should do? It just doesn't happen.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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I think people who live in New York don't realize just how much time they spend talking about the subway.
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I'm proud of the fact that I've taken a lot of big directors, such as Trevor Nunn and Nick Hytner, who were musical virgins, and introduced them to the form.
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She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.
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People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.
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In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.
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What a rush it was to plunge into the bin of official decision and cast a ballot in favor of FUN.
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I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.
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Hardcore fans have a vision in their head, and if they look at your cosplay of it, you may not fit their vision.
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I have no great message to the world.
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I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts degree with no programmes, majors or minors.
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Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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My dad works in finance, so he kept giving me the stats: only one in a hundred actors makes it. He'd ask, 'Have you thought about producing?'
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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In football, day in day out, you always have to show your worth.
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People call me a 'model-actress,' when I just never started with that... it's not my story.
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My father went to boarding school in Sydney when he was 14.
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More than anything, I want to just have the largest amount of people possible listening to my music. This is the biggest thing to me.
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He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the church, but it had its own clarity: the row on row, the deep rotting earth hollowed out to hold them, while the efforts of the living, with all their works and wars and great buildings, were no more than the beat of a wing against the weight of time.
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About Hong Kong: No other place has quite the same blend of East and West, ancient and modern, spectacular and humdrum.
