Tony Blair Quotes
Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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The greater the conceptual significance of a literary product, the more it should be assumed that it is based on an idea that determines the whole, and that the deeper consciousness of the time to which it belongs is reflected in it.
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Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people feel comfortable in their jobs; you keep people talking.
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Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.
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Things look especially bleak for common killers such as diabetes and heart disease. Those ailments clearly have a genetic component. But when scientists survey genes looking for which mutations patients have in common, they come up empty.
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Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
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My messages are temporary and shouldn’t be our permanent condition. And like the wind it will pass. We’ll have another wind coming.
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Normally for photo shoots I get a full wax, some tanning, a facial.
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One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.
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I love actors. I'm empathetic to them. I understand what they go through. But I didn't want to be an actor.
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Every time I went out there I performed the best that I could and it was time to step back and clear my mind.
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Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us to love her. The night is our comfort with her coolness and darkness. On wings, on feet, on our bellies, out we all come to glory in the night.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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I happen to be very good with younger actors because I have extremely vivid memories of that time of my life, and kids are just funny.
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I'm an average enough person to point to the things I've gotten to see that are awe-inspiring.
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Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.
