Philippa Gregory Quotes
The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.
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Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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You promised to take care of me and not to turn your back on me. How is it possible that you never wrote to me even once and you never came back to see me? Do you think that it is fun for me to spend months, even years, without any news, without any hope!
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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As it stands at the moment, if there's a motion of non-confidence on the table in the House, we will not be supporting or indicating confidence in the government.
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Photographs don’t lie, but liars may photograph.
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A man may be as much a fool from the want of sensibility as the want of sense.
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We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.
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It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use.
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The house I grew up in was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. There were very big rooms, which were under-furnished and always cold.
