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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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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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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When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.
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I wonder if childhood is ever really happy. Just as well, perhaps. To be blissfully happy so young would leave one always seeking to recapture the unobtainable. Like those people who were always happiest at school or university. Always going back. No reunion ever missed. It always seemed to me rather pathetic.
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I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eating, or what handbag is the best handbag - that's so cheap to me. But if others want to open up about their personal lives, that is their choice. It's not for me to judge.
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Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!
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I was a truant. And if you're a truant in New York City, the truant officer gets after you, and then you get into the courts, and then things happen which they really shouldn't. But I ended up in a very sweet reform school. It's the place you go to if you've got a really kind judge.
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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.
