Penelope Wilton Quotes
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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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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 people at the bottom who are working but working at relatively low wages need some help.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you.
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If I have affected someone in a positive way, that means a lot to me.
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I don't think I could ever have a desk job, so I get to be mobile. I'm on set. I get to walk around kind of doing my own thing, being independent - it's just a really good vibe. Everyone on a film set is very happy, and they all love their jobs, so it's a cool environment to be a part of.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.
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I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.
