M. E. W. Sherwood Quotes
I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it. Because it'll never look good. Any hesitation in the fitting room and just walk away.
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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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It is said that the effect of eating too much lettuce is 'soporific'.
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There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
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I look at singing and acting as one career, and I love the chance to do both in the same project. I need to do both. When I'm doing one, I miss the other.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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History is obviously dependent on the evidence, and it's always amazing to me how much evidence there is.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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English was great because I could just write my opinion, and that was good enough. I was terrible in Math, even though I had amazing Math teachers. My favorite subject was either English or History. I had a really awesome high school education.
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We are very lucky to work in fashion and not work in a hospital or something where the biggest deal we come across is perhaps the length of a skirt.
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Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.
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Equal access to reading is fundamental to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I am a showman by profession...and all the gilding shall make nothing else of me.
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I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.
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...an incorrect theory, even if it cannot be inhibited by any contradiction that would refute it, is none the less incorrect, just as a criminal policy is none the less criminal even if it cannot be inhibited by any court that would curb it.
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'You have been allowing challenges to destroy you instead of you to destroy challenges. When challenges come – my God has the final say, not my ability or knowledge.'
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Corporations take the humanity out of trade - they take the happiness out and replace it with something that is ugly.
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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
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I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.
