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 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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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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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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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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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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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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Few men would be so gentle as to spare even the best, if by their destruction vile usurpers could become God's anointed, and by the most execrable wickedness invest themselves with that divine character.
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I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.
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Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know.
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We've managed to have a long career that is still quite vibrant, yet we've never had to kow-tow to record companies who said we weren't commercial enough.
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'The Hunger Games' isn't for everybody. But neither is 'Anna Karenina.'
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If the House Republicans want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they should make their case to the American people and elect a president and a majority in both Houses of Congress prepared to do that.
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I love my blackness... I love my queerness.
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I never wanted to be ordinary. I never just wanted to do one thing.
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I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.
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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.
