Penelope Wilton Quotes
I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
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Obviously, exercise is an important part of my life, and I think taking care of yourself is an important part of every individual's health care.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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You can drain the life and nuances and complexity out of things by homogenizing them to make everything harmoniously dull, flat, conflict-free, strife-free.
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I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes.
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My mother taught me that to maximize your philanthropic potential, you need to constantly challenge your capabilities and put yourself in situations that are not always comfortable. Through her example, I discovered that there is no more beautiful way to live a life than to live a life of service.
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I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.
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With my history of concussions, the WWE wants to protect me, so I've had to take a lot of neurological testing.
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Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
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But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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The last time I saw Ted Kennedy was a generation after my first meeting, at the Senate subway below the Capitol on Obama's Inauguration Day. He was his usual gregarious and gracious self - with beaming smile and booming voice wishing my husband and me good luck with our pregnancy and expressing his excitement about the new president.
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Every June, Gypsies come in caravans from all over Europe to honor Django Reinhardt at a festival in Samois-sur-Seine. When I was little, I started hanging out with them. They fascinated me - they really, literally, live in the moment. They take every day as if it's their last.
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The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.
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The best thing for the inside of a man, is the outside of a horse.
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I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?
