Brenda Blethyn Quotes
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
Nancy Pelosi -
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
Octavio Paz -
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
Fletcher Knebel -
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
Patricia Norris -
I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
I'm not a stone-thrower when it comes to Hillary Clinton and her emails and her server. I don't think there has been criminal intent on Hillary Clinton's part. I don't see an indictment.
Gary Johnson
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Actors and directors work on things together. That's how I like to work, anyway. I don't want to be told what to do. I want to share it with someone and work it out together.
Felicity Jones -
Tahini is fantastically versatile, its deep, nutty flavour a harmonious match with roasted vegetables, grilled oily fish or barbecued meat.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
Paddy Ashdown -
Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.
Carl Hiaasen -
At the most basic level, I appreciate writers who have something to say.
Daniel Alarcon -
I don't have anything against my mom, but my family has no emotional connection to each other.
Adam Carolla
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To represent a country, qualify for the World Cup, and get a team to perform at the right moment in time would be great honour for me.
Ottmar Hitzfeld -
Me.
Hank Aaron -
You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
Camille Paglia -
There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: 'Here's what I've been working on,' and then produced some cakes from your oven. True? 'No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?'
Kate Bush -
It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.
Orson Scott Card
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Emily stared into the middle distance, trying to ignore the fact that the men were looking at her like a cupcake on a plate.
M. K. Hobson -
Even if there's a zombie apocalypse, you'll still be able to travel using the Tesla Supercharging system.
Elon Musk -
Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.
Sara Paretsky -
No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man; she knows the history of human flesh; she knows its cost; he does not.
Olive Schreiner -
I love silence.
Brenda Blethyn