Jilly Cooper Quotes
I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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No account of the Renaissance can be complete without some notice of the attempt made by certain Italian scholars of the fifteenth century to reconcile Christianity with the religion of ancient Greece.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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I definitely would not do a reality show.
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With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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I think media people know we're good at making content and how we can be smart about how to consume it. It's always a balance.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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Education never really interested me, to be fair. I mean, education does interest me, but academic school study is a different thing. I can't quite grasp that.
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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
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I don't go out unless I'm working. My quality time is when I'm doing nothing.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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Senior officials are always looking for good juniors, so when the opportunity comes, they give you the responsibilities.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my story. I also do a lot of faith-based speaking, sharing my story and testimony, to help show what God has done in my life and what he can do in others' lives.
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It's nice getting to play a different version of yourself. You sign on for a show and think you're just going to play one character for however many years, so it's nice, for an actor, to have a little bit of fun.
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I have a theory that the secret of marital happiness is simple: drink in different pubs to your other half.
