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.

  

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

  

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

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Stop
  • 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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• 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
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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.

  

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• 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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• Regional gaming across the United States has had serious challenges, not just in Cleveland or Cincinnati, but also across the United States.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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• Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

  

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• The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.

  

  Karen Armstrong
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• I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

  

  David Antin
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• The SAT plays an important role in helping admissions officers around the country sort out students, well-deserving students from 20,000 high schools that have different curriculums, different grading standards, and different ability to help students get ready for college.

  

  Jonathan Grayer
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  • Country

• 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