Harriet Walter Quotes
I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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We expanded primarily for our people - if you don't offer more opportunities, you don't keep good people.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Before every show, we get into a circle, hold hands, and someone makes a speech. Most bands are too cool for that.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.
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Reading reviews makes you thin-skinned. It's like waves washing layers off your skin.
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From my experience of shooting 'Tudors' on the island of Ireland, you cannot predict the weather.
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If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
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I finish two books a week, mostly nonfiction.
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Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.
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By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme.
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I always love stopping by to see what Marc Jacobs has. I will buy pieces from Bergdorf or Barneys and then hit up Zara or Topshop for the rest.
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I read, I gossip, I do crosswords. I think chatting with friends is relaxing. I've picked them up all through my life - if you live long enough, you end up with quite a large circle.
