Fred Upton Quotes
I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.
Quotes to Explore
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I kind of lost interest in school. I was never really that interested anyway. I was never academic. I didn't really go to school as much as I should have.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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Fear is the passion of slaves.
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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True love should be transformative; a process that amplifies our capacity to cherish not just one person but all people. It can make us stronger, lift us higher and deepen us as individuals. Only to the extent that we polish ourselves now can we hope to develop wonderful bonds of the heart in the future.
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I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.
