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.
Quotes to Explore
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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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!
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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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.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
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I've been happily dedicated to the same woman for a number of years. I never even look at other women.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end...
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Coincidence. But the eagerness to find meaning in such coincidences is love.
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The hands are churches that worship the world.
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Be lazy, go crazy.
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'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.
