Penelope Lively Quotes
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
Olivier Martinez -
I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
Felicia Day -
I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
Fareed Zakaria -
With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
Kate Christensen -
That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
Aaron Paul
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
Irina Shayk -
My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.
Dan Stevens -
I love researching, I love interviewing.
Quiara Alegria Hudes -
I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
Fiona Shaw -
We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn't or wouldn't endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.
Dan Gilbert -
I didn't act in school. I didn't study acting, either. I learned everything when I got to New York.
Manish Dayal
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People want a grounded government. They want a government that's going to be responsible to them.
Carl Paladino -
None shall rule but the humble, And none but Toil shall have.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I wish I were big.
Gary Ross -
Spring is here my friends and a new chapter begins.
Jack Layton -
'Here's my man! It doesn't have to stay out and party with his guys!' 'Here, let me see that...It doesn't seem to be able to pick up the fucking check, does it?'
Sam Kinison -
An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.
Don Henley The Eagles
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I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
Ken Livingstone -
I was trained in storytelling by Jim Shooter, Stan Lee, and Larry Hama. Doesn't make me a genius, and there really isn't anything fancy about the stage direction in my scripts.
Christopher Priest -
In terms of politics, I just look at people's policies, and sometimes I agree with something, sometimes I won't.
Gary Lineker -
Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
Penelope Lively