Jane Horrocks Quotes
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
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I want Charo to live with me in my house. I want to have her in my pocket whenever I need cheering up.
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A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
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Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.
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I find singing as somebody else very liberating, it just frees me up.
