Francis Maude Quotes
We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I spend days with writers' block. It is a problem.
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I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.
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The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.
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The universe is large and old, and the ingredients for life as we know it are everywhere, so there's no reason to think that Earth would be unique in that regard. Whether of not the life became intelligent is a different question, and we'll see if we find that.
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We are being held hostage by the people we elect.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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We said in our 21st Century Party paper there are 61 mosaic groups, which the market research people use as different socio-economic categories and half of our members come from just five of those groups and that is very narrow - too narrow.
