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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I'm afraid to fail again.
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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 never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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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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The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.
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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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I care not how worldly you may be: there are times when all distinctions seem like dust, and when at the graves of the great you dream of a coming country, where your proudest hopes shall be dimmed forever.
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The larger the German body, the smaller the German bathing suit and the louder the German voice issuing German demands and German orders to everybody who doesn't speak German. For this, and several other reasons, Germany is known as 'the land where Israelis learned their manners'.
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My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
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I didn't fancy any of my teachers.
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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.
