Nell Leyshon Quotes
I think women often have problems with self-belief, which sounds a bit boring, but they do - and I think when women are bringing up children, it can be chronic, because you have all these other calls on your time.
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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
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I try to be upbeat. I read this book which tells you to write down everything that you're grateful for each day. Now I'm constantly noticing all the little things that make me joyful.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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I read the paper every day and the Bible every day; that way I know what both sides are up to.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.
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When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even if it goes well for you in life, you can never attain that freedom in your imagination of what you think life could be. We are tainted.
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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It goes way, way back when we were under Sweden's rule. We always think they are better than us. We played against them so often for so many years. Every country has one opponent they want to beat and for us, it's Sweden.
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Knowing that anything can happen at any time, I made sure the people that I love know that.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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No two notes are ever the same volume. With the guitar, you really have to model in your mind this wider thing; you're trying to create the illusion of a bigger dynamic range.
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those who despair of life are not long for it.
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The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.
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Charisma is a sparkle in people that money can't buy. It's an invisible energy with visible effects.
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Fault lines run along color lines in American public life, and the women's movement is no exception. Over the years, feminism has become more inclusive but there is still hard work to be done to include LGBT women and communities of color.
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I think women often have problems with self-belief, which sounds a bit boring, but they do - and I think when women are bringing up children, it can be chronic, because you have all these other calls on your time.
