C.J. Sansom Quotes
It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.
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I'm a character actor.
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Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.
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If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.
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I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.
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My priorities are making sure we reduce class size and close the achievement gap.
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There is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft. ... When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
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I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.
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I think with something like 'Watchmen' you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper novel and it also is the complete story.
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I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
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It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.
