Alison Jolly Quotes
Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.
Quotes to Explore
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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I don't think there's any show comparable to 'Game of Thrones' in terms of the way it does the fantasy element to such a high standard: everything is created with so much care and detail. You really feel like you are transported into this entirely other fictional place.
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Unless physical action reflects psychic action, unless the deeds express the person, I get very bored with adventure stories; often it seems that the more action there is, the less happens.
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Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice and they are also the most protected.
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Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day.
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I had sworn to administer justice 'faithfully and impartially.' To do otherwise would be to violate my oath. That meant I had no business of imposing my personal views on the country. Nor did I have the slightest intention of doing so.
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There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.
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In'ards, n. pl. The stomach, heart, soul, and other bowels.
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Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
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Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
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If you like the system as it is, I’m not your guy… If you want a shot at changing it, join me.
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The real test of your Christianity is not how pious you look at the Lord's table on Sunday, but how you act at the breakfast table at home. If it takes two cups of coffee to make you fit to live with, you had better go to the mourner's bench.
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In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this chance to use the glass to harness solar energy and allow the architecture to respond to the light and heat of the sun, to create photosynthesis and generate solar energy?
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I think tights make a comeback out of necessity every season: you can only go so far with naked legs in the cold! You've got to protect yourself. I remember going to a fashion show and saying, 'And it's okay if I wear nude tights with this?' to the designer, who looked at me like I just killed his dog or something.
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The Egyptians saw the sun and called him Ra, the Sun God. He rode across the sky in his chariot until it was time to sleep. Copernicus and Galileo proved otherwise, and poor Ra lost his divinity.
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Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.
