Jane Birkin Quotes
Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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I always knew I'd be more of a character actor than a leading man, and I always wanted to take that and run with it.
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It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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Once you lose your parents, you get this numbness, this feeling of having to really be able to connect yourself with someone. I depended on my brothers for that connection, but to have that feeling of being taken care of... I lost it when my parents passed away.
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The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love my family, thank God - we've given ourselves, to some degree.
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So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.
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I think I've done everything on 'The X Factor' apart from the cleaning.
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I don't want to be able to see the audience.
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The general opinion appears to be that it is very funny to make yourself out as fast or as foolish as possible; though even worse than this is the painful orthodoxy of those individuals who claim Shakespeare for their favourite poet, Beethoven for their favourite composer, and Raphael for their favourite painter.
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We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.
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My mother is French-Italian with a little Spanish blood in her. I've been raised, and she was, as far as I know, raised as a Christian.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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Any film I see at two o'clock in afternoon with my mother seems to cast a strange spell that means we both come out sobbing.
