Emmeline Pankhurst Quotes
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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I have very much been a guy who's acknowledged how many women have directed me, have produced... it's been unbelievable.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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It made the most sense for us to select Sam Bowie. It was almost a no-brainer.
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I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.
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After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.
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And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
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TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.
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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
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If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.
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Everything is perfect. Everything is fine. The rules of life are made up. The rules only exist in your mind. Of course there may be courtesies And closures and laws to abide, But the zeal with which you play Relies on where YOU draw the line
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I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.
