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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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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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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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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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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I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
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When you start something new, you can be sure that the first few years will be full of failures and disappointments.
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The history of man is a compendium of such evil. We are an evolutionary product, descendants of predators. A few synthetic foods aside, every morsel eaten by man is taken from another living thing. We are intended for murder; we kill to exist!
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That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds.
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My father basically had two ways of judging anything. Either something was poetic or it wasn't.
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I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts.
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As mortals, we're ruled by conditions, not by ourselves.
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I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.
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My mother was devoted to helping people - with my father's money! - who had great voices but didn't have the financial means to study music. He and my mum gave away dozens of music scholarships, and my mum opened a school in town, introduced opera to children and created fantastic programmes.
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The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who look upon jealousy as synonymous with impotence, so that the betrayed husband can only shut his eyes, powerless in the face of such accusations.
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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.
