Phoebe Waller-Bridge Quotes

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• When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • School
  • Path
  • Classmates

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Sides

• The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Challenge
  • Goal
  • Opinions

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• It is a changing world with changing opportunities.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • World
  • Opportunities

• I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Trying
  • My Life

• Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Done
  • Said
  • Returns

• I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Like
  • Two

• I was actually deputy headboy at my school. And everyone around me was very supportive of what I wanted to do. There's no romantic story about how me and my brother got to where we are.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • School
  • Brother
  • Romantic

• We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Study
  • Him
  • Visited

• Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the language very difficult, and I didn't enjoy watching it or studying it. I auditioned five times for the Royal Shakespeare Company early on in my career, and I didn't even get past the first rounds.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • School
  • Career
  • Past

• I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Time
  • World
  • Winning

• The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Battle
  • Fought
  • Grandest

• Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • End
  • Globalization

• Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Going
  • Bed
  • Before

• Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Me
  • Tree
  • Down

• Christmas was always a big holiday in our family. Every Christmas Eve before we'd go to bed, my mom and dad would read to us two or three stories and they would always be 'The Happy Prince,' 'The Gift of the Magi' and 'Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and I would like to keep that alive.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • Family
  • Happy
  • Night

• As a kid, I loved to dress up as Ian Dury and run around hitting people with drumsticks. Members of my family, neighbours, friends, kids at school - no one was safe from my rhythm sticks.

  

  Eliot Sumner
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• We are absolutely clear: when these unaccompanied minors have a family link in the United Kingdom, then they must go to the United Kingdom. And they must go quickly and in an efficient fashion.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Family
  • Fashion

• I'm not presumptuous enough to feel that people are going to feel what I have in mind, so I tell a story, you know, let them read something, that doesn't change, that as I have said it, you know, so that's the way I feel about the viewer, the viewer has a mind of their own and eyes of their own and they're going to see it their way, I just hope they look.

  

  Faith Ringgold
  • People
  • Mind
  • Hope

• You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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