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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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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.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.
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I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
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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.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.
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Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
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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.
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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
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One day my 3-year-old daughter said 'Your very handsome, Poppy.' That was the best compliment ever.
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There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.
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Most days I am in public. If I go to the store, with social media, I'm in public. It might as well be a press conference.
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I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
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America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.
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I'm a staunch anti-Castro individual.
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Diversity is enormously important to me.
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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.
