Francis Maude Quotes
Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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Note to self: Never ride a motorcycle in stilettos and a miniskirt.
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I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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The God of life summons us to life; more, to be lifegivers, especially toward those who lie under the heel of the powers.
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Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.
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For boys like me, in north Indian railway towns in the '70s and '80s, where nothing much happened apart from the arrival and departure of trains from big cities, the Soviet Union alone appeared to promise an escape from our limited, dusty world.
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People ascribe a certain kind of silliness to the movie business. Everybody feels like, "In the movies, they do crazy stuff."
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I don’t deny that there can be an element of escapism in mountaineering, but this should never overshadow its real essence, which is not escape but victory over your own human frailty.
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Our party has known great, great days. But we have no God-given right to survive, let alone to succeed.
