Nancy Mitford Quotes
People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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Though many corporations honor commitments to reduce dangerous pollution, some cut corners and cheat. The marketplace doesn't always have mechanisms to correct bad actors.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
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When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.
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If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.
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I've always thought of music as profound spirituality because you can use that music and that spirituality for personal gain or for the good of the world, the good of humanity, and for the good of your people.
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I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with. On the other hand someone's whole behaviour allows you to characterise them in a certain way. This person has liberal convictions, that person has conservative ones, this person is a radical socialist, and so on.
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Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings.
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People in towns are always preoccupied. 'Have I missed the bus? Have I forgotten the potatoes? Can I get across the road?
