Dorothy Leigh Sayers Quotes
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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There's a lot of females that hustle, just like men hustle.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.
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My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
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Don't you know? Because American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
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Economies are complex beasts that need people to do an extraordinary range of tasks.
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Pragmatics studies the factors that govern our choice of language in social interaction and the effects of our choice on others.
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It is true that may hold in these things, which is the general root of superstition; namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.
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'I like to see an angry Englishman,' said Poirot. 'They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.'
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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
