Penelope Keith Quotes
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Cable news is more titillating to talk about who's up and who's down and all that nonsense as opposed to what's actually done.
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Competition is like a treadmill. If you stand still, you get swept off. But when you run, you can never really get ahead of the treadmill and cover new terrain - so you never run faster than the speed that is set.
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War is the ultimate tool of politics.
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Even Karaoke needs higher standards than I can reach, so I have gone great lengths to avoid being bullied into it.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
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I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.
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In brief, Western democracy, as other political models, is not exportable to all regions of the world.
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I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my 'War Stories' documentary series - and when FOX News wants - I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq.
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I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can seem regional and small, and of course that's not the case at all when you start to read the work.
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In the U.K., we have a paper called 'The Daily Mail,' which is quite misogynist. And every day, it just writes pieces about: 'Women, you're going to die now! Women, here's shoes that give you cancer! Women, just hate yourselves!'
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One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.
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The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.
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Even after 'Gangster' being a success, I was considered a B-grade actress and was a sidekick, even though I was good at what I did, and was jobless for two years.
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So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war,There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
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One man stands as free men stand As if his soul might be Brave, unbroken; see his hand Nailed to an oaken tree.
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Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
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Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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We want 'Doll & Em' to be something we're proud of. We'd love to do another series, but it's not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.
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I love touring, I really do.
