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'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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The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.
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I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.
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The Land of Opportunity is an attitude.
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I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.
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Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
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I don't shop as much as a lot of people but I do like designer clothes.
