Winifred Holtby Quotes
I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.
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Being on the road with rock, it's pretty much 90 percent guys.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I'm cranky.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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I love '30 Rock.' It's one of my favorite shows. It's certainly the gold standard of comedy writing.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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I don't know, the word 'famous' just sounds really weird to me, because I'm just me.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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When I was a kid, we got in a cipher and battled each other lyrically. We told jokes and made the hottest dance moves.
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The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them when they are invaded.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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I would rather die having spoken in my way, than live having spoken in yours.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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I eat well, but I don't believe in diets.
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People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
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I am much perturbed by this business of sickness. Our bodies seem so easily to leap into the saddle where our minds should be. People who are ill become changelings.
