Daphne du Maurier Quotes
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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But there's no reason why we should abdicate our foundational principles because certain groups don't believe in them. You know, no majority should surrender its deeply held beliefs to those who don't believe in anything.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.
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You have to expect the raps when you have achieved popularity as a writer.
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Secrecy is one of the shadier sides of private and public life.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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We would like a stable policy framework, and whatever incentives and tax structures are there should be made known to investors upfront. There should be credibility, clarity and continuity in both policy formulation and its implementation.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.
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History is fickle. We know that. The good and bad come around and go around, and go around again. There are recessions and depressions and economic boom and bust.
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The gazing crowd, of glittering State afraid, Adore the Power their coward meanness made; In war's short intervals, while regal shows Still blind their reason and insult their woes.
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People need role models, and they need to feel that there's this opportunity to learn. They need to have people that will stick up for them. I want to be a part of that.
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The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.
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But as some muskets so contrive it As oft to miss the mark they drive at, And though well aimed at dock or plover Bear wide, and kick their owners over.
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A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.
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Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.
