Miriam Margolyes Quotes
Life, if you're fat is a minefield--you have to pick your way, otherwise you blow up.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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If you ask what you are going to do about global warming, the only rational answer is to change the way in which we do transportation, energy production, agriculture and a good deal of manufacturing. The problem originates in human activity in the form of the production of goods.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
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One of television's great contributions is that it brought murder back into the home, where it belongs.
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I am not alone. I am free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody, I don't have to be a first to anybody. I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.
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I use a note-taking system I learned in history class in eleventh grade.
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There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
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Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.
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I grew up babysitting and always enjoyed it. I love family. A couple of my closest friends have kids, and I'm their godfather, and that's one of my greatest pleasures in life, just picking them up from school and hanging out with them.
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All early entrepreneurs fall prey to the same problem, which is everyone believes that if you are super intense in the beginning, work long hours, that you can create something quickly and that entrepreneurship is almost something that happens overnight.
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Acting is very much like a child making believe. I'm not one to become a character, but I fall in love with the character. It's like having faith; you're going to be that person for a while.
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My song 'Saved:' that's EDM-vibes with some L.A. vibes.
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The majority of advertising agency creatives are creative people, but we've disciplined ourselves to think within traditional formats. I want to change that.
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I tell you one of the great things about this movie is, with all that's going on around the world right now, it's just good to go to a movie where you don't have to think too hard, just have a good time, and relax and be crazy.
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The debate over same sex 'marriage' has engaged the heartfelt feelings and convictions of millions of Americans.
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It takes a certain type of man to become a boxer, to fight for a living. To be able to have the confidence to hit another man, to control your fears. You must overcome the psychical aspect and believe in the art, the discipline of the sport. You need to study. You need to be smart.
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Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
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Global warming could be solved by shifting three to four per cent of global GDP to pay for it.
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Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
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Ramadan typically brings a spike in violence in Middle East. I get grumpy when I don't eat - but I don't blow things up. Religion of peace?
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Life, if you're fat is a minefield--you have to pick your way, otherwise you blow up.
