A. J. P. Taylor Quotes
All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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The stage is the best experience in the world. It's a great compliment to be able to share the music, because people can hear my album but they don't get to make the connection in the same way as when it's one-to-one.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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Scribbling things down is my therapy. I filter later.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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I am not a method actor, though I studied for a year with Lee Strasburg.
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Having a child is all-consuming; so is doing a play.
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Every single cell in each person's body tells us whether that person is a male or a female. There is no human being in history whose cells have some mixture of the two, nor anyone who has ever been able to change that cellular reality.
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Out of the ashes of Sara Whitehead rose Melissa Stern. Out of the ashes of Mary Beth Whitehead, there were pieces lost.
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How much do they be paying you?" he asked mellowly. "The usual salary. A little more than they think I'm worth and a little less than I think I'm worth.
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I can't think of any male politician who magnetizes love and hate - mainly hate - the way Margaret Thatcher did.
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All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
