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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I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.
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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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Puerto Rico is a powerful island.
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I thank God every night for David Stern.
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Alcoholism is a complicated disease, and you never know when you'll be tempted to pick up another drink.
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Since [violence against women] is rooted in discrimination, impunity and complacency, we need to change attitudes and behavior - and we need to change laws and make sure they are enforced just like you are doing in Cuba.
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I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.
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I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.
