Victoria Wood Quotes
All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
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Matching shoes and bags immediately age you by 10 years.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Dinner is often a stew of beans or legumes, which are awesome for dieting; they give you that meaty satisfaction and both are excellent with whole grain rice or bread.
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
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I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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Long Kiss Goodnight has a huge cult following. They could make another version of that movie right now and make a lot of money.
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For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.
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The best way to hold a man is in your arms.
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When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.
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God blessed me with another opportunity. If that didn't work, I'd probably be in (the interview room) now, losing a lot of money.
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It's amazing that people were talking about me as a future leader back in 2011.
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I'm an old member of Greenpeace. I worried intensely, as I think most of my friends did, that the world was coming apart.
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'The New York Times' thing... I think any actor would be thrilled to be profiled in that paper.
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All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.
