Dawn French Quotes

Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

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• I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Life
  • Time
  • Car

• In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Money
  • Military
  • Year

• We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Government
  • Process
  • Clear

• Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Kind
  • Proud
  • Film

• I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • People
  • Happy
  • Small

• College dropouts with significant debt struggle with repayment over the course of their lives and do not receive the benefits afforded to their peers who have debt but obtain higher-paying jobs as a result of college completion.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • College
  • Struggle
  • Debt

• If GE's strategy of investment in China is wrong, it represents a loss of a billion dollars, perhaps a couple of billion dollars. If it is right, it is the future of this company for the next century.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Future
  • Couple
  • Loss

• I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Always
  • Goals
  • Put

• During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Comedy
  • Theatre
  • Doing

• I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Will
  • Walk
  • Caring

• The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Battle

• The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Long
  • History
  • Sometimes

• The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.

  

  Laura Miller
  • Family
  • Dream
  • City

• To be a more efficient, faster, and cheaper way to send money around the world, you have to be able to get in and out of Bitcoin. You need to have a liquid exchange on either end of the corridor.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • World
  • Money
  • End

• Bullies always have another target.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Always
  • Another
  • Target

• I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Fight
  • Working
  • Hard

• The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.

  

  Randy Cross
  • Life
  • Like
  • Idiots

• Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Government
  • Bureaucracy

• Even if you see a great performance, it's not always great getting there. There are injuries... Intrinsically or unconsciously, people understand that - people see those performances, and they know there are stories behind that.

  

  Ashton Eaton
  • People
  • Great

• Ultimately, presidential campaigns are - or at least should be - about the candidates, not their spouses or surrogates.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Presidential

• I was genuinely frightened when I saw the Daleks. These ridiculous-looking things absolutely get to the core of you when you're standing in front of one.

  

  Miranda Raison
  • Standing
  • Absolutely
  • Frightened

• This writing distinctly about the kite seems to be my destiny, because among the first recollections of my infancy, it seemed to me that, as I was in my cradle, a kite came to me and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me several times with its tail inside my lips.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Writing
  • Destiny

• The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Writing
  • Modern
  • Accomplishment

• Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

  

  Dawn French
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Joy