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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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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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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When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
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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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We're not the first people to climb up something or do a backflip during a set, but we want to do something that gets people's attention.
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Exchanging bitcoin on behalf of ransomware victims should not be construed as criminal activity by the exchanger, not as a matter of law nor as sound policy. Such an interpretation would set a precedent that would surely cause real harm to the public, to the blockchain ecosystem, and to the financial services industry as a whole.
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Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.
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That's what has always been good about track. The goal is very clearly defined: Try to win. Get the gold medal. And I'm able to put my energy toward that.
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I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.
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My original opinion still stands. I don't think he should have put it out.
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I'm sure people think that I'm out in left field you know, playing by myself.
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I believe it is not a question of whether or not we support tax cuts, ... It really is a question of what we can afford to do now in the current economic and fiscal climate.
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Depression does tremendous damage. Use every ploy you can think of to bring yourself to joy.
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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.
