Jack Straw Quotes
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I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. It's her choice.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
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Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have. People want to know what happens next, people hate the villains and love the lovers. It's good, fun TV. But I wouldn't call 'Downton' a soap opera as such.
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No man is much pleased with a companion, who does not increase, in some respect, his fondness for himself.
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What, in substance, both the Esquimaux wizards and the Louisiana swamp-priests had chanted to their kindred idols was something very like this: the word-divisions being guessed at from traditional breaks in the phrase as chanted aloud: 'Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.' … 'In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.' .
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Expectation is in itself a very pretty sort of reality.
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The Modernist’s command was Pound’s 'Make it New.' The postmodern imperative is 'Get it Used.' The more used the better.
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I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
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Technology has come a long way since PayPal.
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I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.
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NASA trains you to assess emergency situations and react in a way to keep yourself and everyone else safe.
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The Smurfs - and they're this way in Peyo's comics as well - do have a rubbery indestructibility about them. They can get bruised & battered. But they then just sort of bounce back very quickly, like those classic cartoon characters Wiley Coyote and Tom & Jerry.
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There's some dues that you just have to pay in life.
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It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.
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In anger-management training, they teach you never to hit a person - hit an object. That's what they teach you.
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All good books wind up, I think, with the writer getting his teeth bashed in.
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Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency.
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The great thing about being in the public eye is that you can really do something for that cause because people love and respect you
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First, you have to finish.
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The most subversive thing a woman can do is talk about her life as if it really matters.
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The proposals from the presidency are not acceptable to us.
