Betty Gilpin Quotes
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.
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In a competitive industry, only paranoid incumbents - those constantly striving for betterment - have any hope of surviving.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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When people move from poor countries to America, they quickly adapt in at least one way - their consumption habits.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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I keep everything that's private private.
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I do not speak through my characters; it's not a ventriloquist act.
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I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
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Some people just use beautiful things to just shop or to have a tribal feeling - 'Oh, blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Hermes; blah, blah, blah, I'm wearing Saint Laurent; blah-blah blah' - because it's like a need, a tribe, recognition: 'Ahh, my Rolex.' But I run away from anything which is too recognizable - it's my nature.
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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
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I always worked mostly in Quebec. I never thought of the States, somehow. I don't know - I don't have blue eyes or blond hair. I thought I didn't fit with the stereotype of America.
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In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.
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It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
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Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.
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The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.
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I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.
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Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.
