Deborah Moggach Quotes
It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?
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Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.
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Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the early days of testing nuclear bombs, that Russia and America happened to test a nuclear bomb at the same moment at different ends of the earth.
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Such an accusation is as stupid as it is absurd.
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The joy about the recording is that you are your own boss. You don't have a director telling you how to do it.
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You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough.
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I liked Trump's honesty because it was different and had a chance to change the business of politics. What I didn't realize he was missing at the time was a complete and utter lack of preparation, knowledge, and common sense.
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It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.
