Philippa Gregory Quotes
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Anyone driving through London after the school term ends will notice immediately how much easier it is to get around. The school run contributes massively to congestion.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.
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I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
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My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don't realize are computers at all.
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I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
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As a Jew I cannot sit idle while genocidal atrocities continue to unfold in Darfur, Sudan.
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Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.
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There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself.
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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The world has proved enough times that it can scale cruelty and violence. Compassion and kindness can and must be scaled to create a world of justice for children.
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I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.
