Heather Brooke Quotes
When I came to Britain I was in awe of the British press, afraid of them. But they're not as ferocious as people think. In some instances they are, but when it comes to taking on power they're really deferential.
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You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
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Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of different races forever. Different class? That was much harder.
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I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.
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Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.
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Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.
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I appreciate everything that has been done for me. After a difficult start, I've just followed my dreams.
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No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.
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Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.
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You know all those young people watching Comedy Central love 'Frasier.'
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You see something faraway & it looks beautiful & very seductive; but as you go closer you realize it's actually bugs crawling over a corpse.
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No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world.
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What typically emerges from looking at kids, gifted and ordinary, is that, from the kids’ point of view, accomplishment, that is, the private sense of mastery, the hard thing suddenly made easy, counts for far more in their inner lives than does the achievement-the competition won, the reward secured.
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It is quite certain that in seeing the people who treat us so well despite their own misfortune, we are more obliged than ever to work hard for their happiness. The king seems to understand this truth; as for myself, I know that in my whole life (even if I live for a hundred years) I shall never forget the day of the coronation.
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The majority is still at the General's disposal.
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I learned how to draw from being bored in school. I would doodle on the margins of my paper.
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I spend most of my life not wanting to be found, and actually, I'm pretty good at it.
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I haven't been hunting for years. It is just a tradition I grew up with.
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I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.
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We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.
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I was around computers from birth; we had one of the first Macs, which came out shortly before I was born, and my dad ran a company that wrote computer operating systems. I don't think I have any particular technical skills; I just got a really large head start.
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We still have this prudish, puritanical culture, but we also have so little exposure to a diversity of bodies. Bodies are beautiful and great and compelling.
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What they had between them was alot deeper than what most people had.
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When I came to Britain I was in awe of the British press, afraid of them. But they're not as ferocious as people think. In some instances they are, but when it comes to taking on power they're really deferential.
