Rachel Johnson Quotes
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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The bad reviews get to me, believe me.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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My daughter's still so tiny at the moment; she's just a sweet little meaty thing. But of course, you always think about what you want for them, don't you, and like any parent I want my children to be happy more than anything.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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One hates to be absolute, but in my view, there is no such thing as humane meat.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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I know about raising money.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
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I don't go back and read my own stuff too much, but there are times where I second-guess myself and said I could have done something different, like a line of dialogue.
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In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.
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I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
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I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.
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With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew of books about the menopause and middle age, the most recent addition being David Bainbridge's plucky, glass-half-full meditation or, as he calls it, 'natural history.'
