Jacqueline Winspear Quotes
What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.
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I never get recognised here in London, which I like. Once a year, someone comes up to me and asks if I am 'so-and-so's niece' because they think they recognise me from somewhere. I like that.
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I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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Let me say that I think the economic history of the last 150 years clearly shows that if you want to industrialize a country in a short period, let us say 20 years, and you don't have a well-developed private sector, entrepreneurial class, then central planning is important.
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I love when I go to conventions, and often it'll be the younger kids who will refer to us by our character names - how can you not find that absolutely charming? I remember when I used to go to conventions when I was a kid when I would stand in long lines to get people's autograph.
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A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
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Physical intimacy is easy. Emotional intimacy is hard.
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Friday, 14 March,
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Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
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Clarice: proposing to Toni I'll be your lawyer if you'll be my accountant.
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I saw clearly only when I saw with love. Or can one ever remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. And that's the truth of roses, isn't it? - The perfume?
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We'll look after our hospitals. We'll look after our schools. We'll look after our infrastructure.
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Sexual signals can be received without being consciously sent.
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Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das LebenDer täglich sie erobern muß.
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There's a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.
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What's interesting to me, is a moving someone through time; in a way, history is part of my landscape. And it fascinates me that history can be so easily reflected in what happens today.
