David Blunkett Quotes
As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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My maternal grandmother, Penelope, was a very big figure in my life. She was a child of the Raj, born in India, a debutante who hobnobbed with royals, then married a Canadian, Bill Aitken, who became MP for Bury St Edmunds.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I am a Zionist.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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My husband is a musician. He cooks and he's a chef but he also, he makes basement recordings. So many people in my life make basement recordings, so I feel very lucky, I'm surrounded by very creative people.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.
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I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world.
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When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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I don't do meetings.
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As soon as street art got popular, I was just like, 'I'm out of here.'
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I learned this about coaching: You don't have to explain victory and you can't explain defeat.
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For a long time, the film business was a single-digit business on investment return. Now, because of home video, it's a low double-digit business, and the studios want to make sure it doesn't go back into the single-digit business.
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Older Americans are perfect telemarketing customers, analysts say, because they are often at home, rely on delivery services, and are lonely for the companionship that telephone callers provide.
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Chicago made me. They can treat me however they want to treat me anywhere else in the country. When I go back home, they treat me like I'm a star.
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As home secretary, I gained a reputation for being 'tough'; less concerned with liberty than with public protection.
