Ellen Wilkinson Quotes
Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
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Unlike the objective of far too many companies, manufacturing is not about a quick 'exit.' It is centered on long-term value creation.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I don't meet many people who are talking about shows on Showtime.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment in which England was the global superpower the subject of British power appeared not to interest most writers.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I love performing. I love getting out there. It's kind of like why I make music.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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Enormous enlargements of an object or a fragment give it a personality it never had before, and in this way, it can become a vehicle of entirely new lyric and plastic power.
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Until I carried my wife off to New Hampshire, she defined wilderness as the Bronx.
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Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.
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You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.
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I hate how box-office failures are blamed on an actress, yet I don't see a box-office failure blamed on men.
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Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.
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Women have worked hard; starved in prison; given of their time and lives that we might sit in the House of Commons and take part in the legislating of this country.
