Samantha Bond Quotes

'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.

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• I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.

  

  Ophelia Lovibond
  • She
  • Friend
  • Jazz

• The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Great
  • Business
  • America

• People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Different
  • Women
  • Thought

• The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • Fear
  • Choice

• One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Man
  • Memories
  • Famous

• Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Me
  • Role
  • Written

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • World
  • Alone
  • Rest

• I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Look

• Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

  

  Mara Liasson
  • Today
  • Political
  • Politics

• In poetry, I have, since very young, loved poetry in translation. The Chinese, the French, the Russians, Italians, Indians and early Celts: the formality of the translator's voice, their measured breath and anxiety moves me as it lingers over the original.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Poetry
  • Voice
  • Chinese

• Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Small
  • Saying

• After I'd hit a home run and took my position in the field, the fans in the bleachers began throwing packages of tobacco at me. I stuffed them in my pocket.

  

  Hank Sauer
  • Home
  • Me
  • Run

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Give
  • Type
  • Them

• When I consider how my light is spent,Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that one talent which is death to hideLodged with me useless.

  

  John Milton
  • World
  • Death
  • Light

• When I was growing up in Russia, my grandmothers would cook the best pancakes in the world, the best meatballs, the best dumplings.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Up
  • World
  • Growing

• 'You Must Remember This', the podcast about 'the secret and or forgotten history of Hollywood's first century', has a thread dedicated to Dead Blondes, which is a clue to where it's coming from.

  

  David Hepworth
  • Remember
  • History

• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Body

• Women are always beautiful.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Always

• 'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • World
  • Best
  • Looking Forward