Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
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The impulse of nature, fused through the personality of the artist by laws arising from the particular nature of the medium, produces the rhythm and the personal expression of a work. Then the life of the composition becomes a spiritual unity.
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Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
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One thing as a leader - you don't say something to say something. When you actually see something and need to talk to a guy, that's when you say it. It will come naturally.
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I guess I concentrated exclusively on basketball because of my height. If I was shorter, I don't think I would play.
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People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.
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I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He's a great leveler.
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Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.
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You rarely see any blowout games.
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When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
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At DonorsChoose.org, you can give as little as $1 and get the same level of choice, transparency, and feedback that is traditionally reserved for someone who gives millions. We call it citizen philanthropy.
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When talented, qualified women take on greater responsibility, the simple fact of being talented and qualified is hardly enough to shield them from the gender-specific animosity that will come their way.
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If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice.
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To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.
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I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.
