Francis Maude Quotes
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.
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I think the greatest privilege you have as an artist is time to nurture what you want to make; that's super luxurious. For you to rush into something, that doesn't feel fun to me. I'm living life in order to be able to write about it.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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No one knows what the top-performing asset class will be next year. Lacking this prescience, your next-best solution is to own all of the classes and rebalance regularly.
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The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
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I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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I have a hyper personality.
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You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today.
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Angels are like diamonds. They can't be made, you have to find them. Each one is unique.
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Exposition has legitimate uses. It's the most efficient way to summarize background information, including necessary information about a character's history. It can set the stage well for a major dramatized event.
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The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
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We have Sunday morning breakfast before church. I don't do the dishes, but I do cook. I'm the griller.
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My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.
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I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.
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America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
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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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France always had this balanced position that in so many conflicts was the voice of peace. I intend to maintain that. De Gaulle was pleading for a multipolar world.
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The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.
