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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I think there is beauty in everything.
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My life will not be defined by a single political campaign. Those will come and go. But what has driven me to run for elected office in the past still drives me today: the knowledge that heroes do walk among us with tremendous strength and power.
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I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
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But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.
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I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.
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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.
