Peter Mandelson Quotes
In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
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I've been writing music since 4th grade, and I love putting words together and expressing things in a way that you can move your head to and you can really relate to, because I have a lot to say.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I just take it one day at a time. Austin Powers has given me a lot of opportunities as far as my career.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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Opinions are like snowflakes, you know what I'm saying?
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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If you do what you were born to do, I think you will never grow old.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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It’s hard to be wrongfully accused, but it’s worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.
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Well football teams are perhaps easier to control than political parties, I'm sure the Prime Minister would agree with me, but yeah I think every team needs discipline and a sense of self-belief and that's important, that's what leadership's all about.
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Every quarter, we give an award for a breakthrough idea even if it doesn't make it to market.
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Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.
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In 1856...I preferred the success of a candidate whose election would prevent or postpone secession, to seeing the country plunged into a war the end of which no man could foretell. With a Democrat elected by the unanimous vote of the Slave States, there could be no pretext for secession for four years.... I therefore voted for James Buchanan as President.
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In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy.
