Michelle Dockery Quotes
I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.Michelle Dockery
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
H. P. Lovecraft -
I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
Hannibal Buress -
It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
Dan Colen -
Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
Taylor Swift -
We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
Nancy Keenan -
I'm not the girl next door.
Carine Roitfeld
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
Rachel Weisz -
I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
Victor Hugo -
When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
Zora Neale Hurston
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
Victor Hugo -
Let's be honest: the label of model-daughter-of-celebrity mother is... you know, I don't want to have that label. It's not who I am. It's not my values to go off someone else's name and to be pigeonholed as that. So in a way, that has really pushed me to be more independent.
Tali Lennox -
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
Victor Hugo -
One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
Patrick Dempsey -
There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.
Inbee Park -
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol
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Writing is hard work; its also the best job Ive ever had.
Raymond E. Feist -
I took opportunities, big or small, to show that I was a constant professional. I feel like the Sam Jackson of network TV drama.
Jaleel White -
I never think of a project as just being comedy or just being drama - even with 'Masters of Sex.' I like being sort of messy, like life is.
Allison Janney -
I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.
Michelle Dockery