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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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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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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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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It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
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I really think of myself just as a filmmaker.
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The sky is the limit as long as you keep the rooms practical, and I have become better at that since I had children. Function, form and organisation are all important.
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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.
