Penelope Leach Quotes
You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.
Quotes to Explore
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
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Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
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You can't rely on love. Love will let you down every time. Every. Single. Time. I don't love Jecca. I don't love Fanboy. But... God, the buts in life will kill you absolutely every time, won't they. I don't love. But I need. I can admit that to myself.
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It is up to the historians, not politicians, to judge what happened in the past. Politicians look into the future.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
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You know that your toddler needed love and approval but he often seemed not to care whether he got it or not and never seemed to know how to earn it. Your pre-school child is positively asking you to tell him what does and does not earn approval, so he is ready to learn any social refinement of being human which you will teach him....He knows now that he wants your love and he has learned how to ask for it.
