Storm Jameson (Margaret Storm Jameson) Quotes
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
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I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
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For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.
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I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.
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Barbour is a brand that I have grown up with and been associated with since I was living near the borders of Scotland.
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And I think within the pages of The Betrayal of America I think I present an overwhelming case that these five justices were up to no good, and they deliberately set out to hand the election to George Bush.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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I turn left for a living.
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I am Irish as a person, but I feel Jewish as an actor.
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Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.
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A magazine is not just one person. And a fashion shoot is the same!
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Spend hundreds of millions; talk endlessly about issues; present 12-point plans for education, the economy, and the environment. But in the end, the election of our next president can turn on a gaffe.
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I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal formal and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.
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What is called Nothingness is to be found only in time and in speech. In time it stands between the past and future and has no existence in the present; and thus in speech it is one of the things of which we say: They are not, or they are impossible.
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Now as we call every thing custom, which proceeds from a past repetition, without any new reasoning or conclusion, we may establish it as a certain truth, that all the belief, which follows upon any present impression, is deriv'd solely from that origin.
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Eventually, Nixon ran a very centrist presidency, not a Goldwater conservative presidency.
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I have never hesitated to work hard and always try and give my best in whatever I am doing.
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Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.
