Brian Cox Quotes
The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores.
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You can't work in a steel mill and think small. Giant converters hundreds of feet high. Every night, the sky looked enormous. It was a torrent of flames - of fire. The place that Pittsburgh used to be had such scale.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I can never sit still. I wanna hurl myself into life.
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There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
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I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
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You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.
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When I am an old woman, I will stop trying to look beautiful. I will quit wearing makeup and buying uncomfortable clothes because they look good. Maybe I will take up nudism.
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People talk about PlayStations, video games, social network and Twitter; I can't handle it.
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That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.
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It's no secret that in our society, and many before, people are trend followers. For some reason, they feel better about themselves if they are dressed in the latest fashion or have the newest tech gadget.
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Order in the societies they describe is the result of a dense social network where people have an intimate understanding of each other and the threat of violence is a continuous force for preserving order because of its implications for other members of society.
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The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
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I am not a woman. I am a force of nature.
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That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.
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The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.
