Jilly Cooper Quotes
The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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Everybody has to look after their own economy and follow the rules.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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I feel a duty to write because I can write songs.
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We are a pluralist civilisation because we allow mosques to be built in our countries, and we are not going to stop simply because Christian missionaries are thrown into prison in Kabul. If we did so, we, too, would become Taliban.
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Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong.
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In Medford, I awaked the Captain of the Minute Men; & after that, I alarmed almost every house, till I got to Lexington.
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The bank told us we ought to sell this house to pay off our overdraft. Riders saved the day. I was so pleased when it got to number one, I went all around the fields crying and crying.
