Alison Fell Quotes
Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
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By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.
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I'm lucky. Usually you're dead to get your own museum, but I'm still alive to see mine.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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I love to get a massage but I'm quite a baby with it. I don't like them too hard or anyone walking on me or anything. When it's good, it's the best thing ever. When it's bad, it's an hour of absolute agony.
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One of my major objectives is to build a long-term enterprise, to build shareholder value over time.
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In 'The Founders,' his new book about top charter schools, Richard Whitmire traces both the 'revolution' these schools brought about in many American cities as well as a parallel phenomenon, 'the charter pushback campaigns.'
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
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A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
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The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
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Whoever interrupts the conversation of others to make a display of his fund of knowledge, makes notorious his own stock of ignorance.
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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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We need to punch back against the extremes of both the left and the right and define the terms of the debate ourselves.
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Hairspray and blusher, eyelash curlers, eye-shadow palettes the size of tea-trays. Even before they left school it was as if they were already rehearsing for some witless kind of womanhood.
