Penelope Fitzgerald Quotes
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian Spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians' right to self-determination on their land.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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I'm trying to live every moment as much as I can.
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In Japan, the average age of agricultural workers is 65.8. When the aging of its population is accelerating so rapidly, it will be very difficult to sustain the sector whether we liberalize trade or not.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
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We don't go against the will of the people.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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I'm tired of being lied to by government, by the media, and by every corporation I have anything to do with.
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The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.
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A lot of people have, like, 95 percent of their wealth in bitcoin. Great for them, but I got to be smart.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.
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I think everything about my life is magical. I've struggled, and against most odds, I'm truly having the experience of living my dreams.
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If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.
