Meg Tilly Quotes
There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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The problem is foster youth don't really have this network that other kids have.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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I almost took a job in Italy. It was really a great opportunity, but they didn't think I had enough international experience.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.
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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.
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It meant so much to me as a kid to see professional theater and hear Shakespeare's words.
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In choosing people for specific jobs previous experience should not be a guide. I never put a man in the job which he thought he knew. Often the 'experts' make the worst possible Ministers in their own fields. In this country we prefer rule by amateurs.
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I think your first gut feeling is the correct feeling.
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Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.
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Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.
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There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you.
