Brigid Brophy Quotes
Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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I am an ardent supporter of capitalism - but I also understand that while individuals have inalienable, God-given rights, corporations do not.
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I like it when I am in the middle; I am closer to the ball. The manager wants me to pass, to make assists, create chances, and I do more because I think the position is more central, and I don't ask all the time for the ball at my feet.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I try to win every tournament.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.
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Soaring rhetoric will not restore the American people's confidence in their government.
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I'm learning what I gotta do to get people hyped up. It doesn't matter even if they're not dancing, as long as they're bobbing their head and as long as it looks like a mosh pit down there.
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Whenever people say 'we mustn't be sentimental' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'we must be realistic,' they mean they are going to make money out of it.
