Jill Paice Quotes
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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And the first flight of the tether satellite happened in '92, and I was the backup on that flight.
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I'm obsessed with 'Top Chef'.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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Individuals want to know that none of their own money is being invested in companies that put their profits ahead of international security.
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A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.
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I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special.
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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
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Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.
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A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.
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The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.
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I've been offered jobs by companies that supported apartheid many times in the 25 years of my modeling career, but I have never taken one of them. I have to refuse that money, because I'm not going to work against my people. They've suffered enough.
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I look at myself more as a storyteller than a screenwriter, as pretentious as that may sound, but that's what really attracts me to TED Talks. For me, the really effective ones are being presented by expert storytellers.
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Computers will be able to do all the mundane tasks in our daily lives.
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My face is oblong. But the best grooming is confidence.
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I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.
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Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
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I'm kind of a dirty guy, a little Bill Laimbeer-ish. Those are the guys I used to watch growing up. I used to watch Karl Malone; now I watch Boozer and Elton Brand and try to emulate those guys as much as possible because those guys are about the same size as me.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I want a star!
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Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.
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You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.
