Jane Asher Quotes
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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I think it's important for an actor to see the work they've done because every time you revisit a work you come up with a new way of improving it. It's a good way to brush up your craft and your skills, so I think it's a good thing to do, keep seeing your films.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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You can involve yourself in electronics, computers, puzzles... there's a lot of creativity and brain working. There's a lot to model trains that people don't realize.
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When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
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Our workforce is very co-operative, very flexible, easy to work with and one of the big selling points. The idea that Britain is still back in the labour market of the '70s is utterly bizarre.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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What is our freedom fight about? Is it about the liberation of children or just having sex with them?
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I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.
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I want to be treated like a musician.
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It's important for Republicans to nominate someone who not only has a vision of how to create jobs, but who has done it. That's why I am endorsing Texas Governor Rick Perry for President.
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I'm proud of everything I do, but I think I'm the most happy about becoming a rapper. It was my entrance into everything. That helped me get into acting.
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I have so many goals and aspirations that sometimes I lose myself.
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We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
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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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People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.
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The tide tarrieth no man.
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If I can convince people that good people don't do attack ads, and that we want good people to represent us, then the attack ads work against themselves.
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The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
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When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007, we took over 100 first meetings. We told our story several hundred times. As part of it was a slide called 'Strategy.' I still repeat the elements of that slide regularly, a decade later, as our core strategy has not changed.
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I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward.
