Joan Hickson Quotes

Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

Joan Hickson

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• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I can't predict the future. All I know is that if we continue down the path we're on, the Affordable Care Act will implode on itself. People will be without insurance.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Future
  • Path

• I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Musician
  • Singer
  • Untraine

• I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • People
  • Believe
  • Service

• I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Attention

• Law is the essential foundation of stability and order both within societies and in international relations.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Law
  • Foundation
  • Stability

• The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Me

• In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Movies

• I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• TV news has largely given Trump editorial control.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Control
  • Trump
  • News

• I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Naked

• Squid experts have been debating for some time about whether the giant squid is a passive predator that just floats around in the water and waits to bump into something. I was never one to imagine it to be passive.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Time
  • Water
  • Never

• Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Me
  • Public

• Look at the newborn baby. It struggles to breathe after living in the womb. And yet, growth comes as a result of struggle. Even when we talk about jihad. We need to attach consciousness to struggle. This struggle has to be both individual and collective.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Struggle
  • Growth
  • Baby

• My orange Persian Mews hangs out with me while I write.

  

  Karen Robards
  • Me
  • Write
  • Orange

• In 2005, I visited my home state of Texas, spending time on a ranch outside the town of Post. Then spending some time on a large ranch outside Archer City. I was taken by just how few young people I saw anywhere.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • People
  • Time
  • Home

• Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Time
  • World
  • Soul

• I'm crazy, but I'm not stupid.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Crazy
  • Stupid

• Never take a loan against your retirement! When you pay interest against your retirement, you cost yourself interest.

  

  Dave Ramsey
  • Retirement

• Of course, I'm sour that if (retirement) happens, I didn't get to quit on my own terms.

  

  Peter Forsberg
  • Retirement

• I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.

  

  Christina Ricci
  • Important
  • Christian

• Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Fear

• Retirement is fatal. Luckily, in my profession, you don't have to retire.

  

  Joan Hickson
  • Retirement