Michelle Dockery Quotes

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

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• Hollywood is the only thing more ridiculous than Silicon Valley. There's nowhere else where it's stranger.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
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• The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.

  

  Hans Jonas
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• When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lights, then you say a couple of lines, then they tear down the lights again. At least stunts are something that uses your physical energy a great deal.

  

  Yvonne Craig
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• I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.

  

  Harmony Korine
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• Reading is a huge part of life.

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
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• One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

  

  E. M. Forster
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  • Own

• No secret that for some years - long before my time - Komen was dealing with a controversy regarding Planned Parenthood grants.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Time
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  • Planned

• Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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  • Fashion
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• I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• After 'A Suitable Boy,' I didn't write anything, not even a short story. I thought to myself: 'I ought to start writing.' But I can never force myself to write.

  

  Vikram Seth
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• To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

  

  Wendell Berry
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  • Know

• Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • People
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• I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
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• In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.

  

  Ed Stoppard
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• When I had cancer, people were surprised at how cheerful and upbeat I was, but I couldn't let myself go to depression - to go there, that defeat would allow everything in. If you look too far into the abyss, you might never come out again. You can stand on the abyss and peep but not give in to sadness.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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  • Cancer

• I'm in a very fortunate position, in that if I had an idea, and I could do it on a web budget, I could probably get it made; it's just a question of finding the time to really develop it, because I don't want to make anything that I don't believe in 100 percent.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
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• I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Kind
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• The fact is that child rearing is a long, hard job, the rewards are not always immediately obvious, the work is undervalued, and parents are just as human and almost as vulnerable as their children.

  

  Benjamin Spock
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• It was the understanding of the power of perception that allowed the Martin Luther King, Jr. generations to stay true to the strategy of non-violence, refusing to retaliate when every emotional instinct would justify them doing so.

  

  Burgess Owens
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• I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.

  

  Carlos Gracie, Jr.
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• It's what great artists do. They suffer and feel more within the human condition than others. They're not better for that, just more sensitive, and there's a burden to that.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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  • Know
  • Fashion

• In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

  

  Michelle Dockery
  • Fashion
  • Celebration
  • Periods