Elizabeth I Quotes
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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It's great fun to play with a really good band.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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Before I turned vegetarian, I used to often cook seafood or my favourite breakfast of eggs and bacon. Now, I love making pulao or rice with lots of spices and vegetables.
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First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house.
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One of the reasons my name is Rushdie is that my father was an admirer of Ibn Rush'd, the 12th century Arab philosopher known as Averroes in the West. In his time, he was making the non-literalist case for interpreting the Koran.
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Oh, Mr Coward, sir - I could never have an affair with you, because you remind me of my father!
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I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I'm amazing with gravy. That's my speciality; even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. I'm very proud of my gravy.
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Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
