Michael Gove Quotes

You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

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• No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

  

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• I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.

  

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• My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.

  

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• We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.

  

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• Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.

  

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• I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.

  

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• I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.

  

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• My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

  

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• Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  

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• From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.

  

  Rahul Dravid
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• I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

  

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• I have never anticipated success. I choose work, give it my best shot, and leave it.

  

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• We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

  

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• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

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• Wearing too much makeup definitely makes my skin worse.

  

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• I just want to keep acting and better my craft and see how far it goes.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
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• I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.

  

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• The arts capture our insecurities, quicken our instincts, guide us through threats. They help us know ourselves. They help us know each other. They help us know better.

  

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• What prevailed was that it was a family story, so it didn't matter what the color. It was also the perfect subject matter for a miniseries: A best-selling book, a generational story, a social problem - they all made 'Roots' what a miniseries should be.

  

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• The most important thing for having a party is that the hostess is having fun. I'm very organized. I make a plan for absolutely everything. I never have anything that has to be cooked while the guests are there. The only thing I might have to do is take something out of the oven and carve it.

  

  Ina Garten
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• Art has to maintain as large a space for interpretation as possible, and to protect itself from being too narrow.

  

  Camille Henrot
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• You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'

  

  Michael Gove
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