Elizabeth McGovern Quotes
I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.
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Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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I think I'm going to be around awhile.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.
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My theory is that balance is key - nothing in excess.
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Egypt was the first democracy in the Middle East. Women were unveiled in the 1920s. Egypt is a country of civilization, of culture. It shouldn't be suffering.
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Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.
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I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
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I have a painting where somebody's holding a chicken, and underneath the chicken is somebody's head.
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I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.
