Jean de La Fontaine Quotes
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
Val McDermid
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
Kapil Sibal
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston
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In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.
Barack Obama
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One rose says more than the dozen.
Wendy Craig
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara
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I would have liked to do more big movies. And the reason I say that is not because I want to be a star, but what I would have liked to have done is reached a different audience with my work.
David Suchet
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I like a well-rounded life. All of this work is kind of useless if you don't have something good to come home to.
Kurt Vile
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People say to me 'You're a big Hollywood star', and I find it so funny. I still feel as though I'm the girl from Golders Green. I lead such a boring, normal life. I still go shopping in Sainsbury's. If the ability to do that was taken away from me, I'd go barmy. You lose your freedom. Be careful what you wish for.
Amanda Donohoe
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Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.
Clara Barton
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That's what writing is: it's imagining that you can make a world. That's what basketball is, too: it's imagining the game as a world.
John Edgar Wideman
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine