Kate Adie Quotes
It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I always remember that I am a representative of my country, and I always think about the culture I'm bringing to people.
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If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
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Raquel Welch is someone I can also live without. We've got some love scenes together and I am dreading them!
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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I'm a benefit to the city. I'm not a detriment.
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I get offered so many bad movies. And they're all raging queens or transvestites or Martians.
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One thing I have noticed is that when you're a younger editor, you're more intense about it. As you go along, you relax a little. More and more, I feel that the book is the author's. You give the author your thoughts, and it's up to him or her to decide what to do.
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If the assembled company rags you for a failing, you can usually play up to it for comic effect: it's the failing they don't mention that you have to watch out for.
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Why write for the orchestra? For one thing it's a very challenging problem.
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I would like to be the best in the world, but that's not the be-all and end-all. I want to have fun in my sport, and I want to take it as far as I can. Obviously, I do have big goals like that. But they don't take over who I am as a person and my family and everything else that's important in my life.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
