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.
Jessica Brown Findlay
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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.
Laura Haddock
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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.'
Oriana Fallaci
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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.
Caitlyn Jenner
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
Pablo Sandoval
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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.
Han Suyin
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
Edith Hamilton
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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.
Yoko Ono
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What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.
Foster Friess
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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.
Hans Hofmann
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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.
E. M. Forster
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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.
Kristaps Porzingis
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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.
Anne Donovan
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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.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
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Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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The editors are committed to nothing save this: to keep common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible, to give civilized entertainment.
H. L. Mencken
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I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.
Bill Gates
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Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.
Stockwell Day
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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.
Jessica Brown Findlay
