Penelope Wilton Quotes
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage.
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I know what poverty is.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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I would much rather be a better mother or better human being than I would be a singer. Fortunately for me singing makes me a living.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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According to the new ethics, virtue is not restrictive but expansive, a sentiment and even an intoxication.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
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I have no regrets. I've got my health.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid. In your uppity restaurants, they serve a lot of rabbit. But I just can't help but think of Peter. And deer, I can't go there, because of Bambi.
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'Curb' is 100 percent improvised, which is wild. I'd never done anything like that.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I want people to know that I'm not just another kid M.C. I'm actually a fan of good music and hip-hop.
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I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.
