Polly Toynbee Quotes
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
Quotes to Explore
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.
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It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
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I think the reason I love 'Antiques Roadshow' is that it is sort of like the lottery. There's the chance a regular Joe could walk in with anything and come out close to a millionaire. There's the thrill of the find.
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Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audience disagrees with.
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I was privileged to grow up in Mexico at a time when you could play in the streets. We lived not too far from the ocean, and we would be outside all the time with the neighbours' kids, running free. What better place could there be for a child?
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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
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Novels tend to end as the Paternoster begins: with the kingdom of God on earth.
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We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.
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I'm terrible about people wanting to take pictures with me. I'm a giant baby about it. They treat you like a cartoon. There's nothing you can do except make light of it. That's if I'm in the mood – sometimes I get superbummed.
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I wanted to be a stuntman. I didn't really want to be an actor. I took classes when I was younger, but I really sucked.
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Women are always beautiful.
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No one truly understood what it is to exist as someone who has to do the things that Jack Bauer does.
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Sleep demands of us a guilty immunity. There is not one of us who, given an eternal incognito, a thumbprint nowhere set against our souls, would not commit rape, murder and all abominations.
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At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.
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Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.
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This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition.
