Winifred Holtby Quotes
The damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Looking back, the biggest mistake I made was feeling ashamed of it. Acne is a part of life. You don't need to be embarrassed of it.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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I've always been happy with my body.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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I try to have fun with the fans, try to have fun.
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As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.
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I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
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High expectations are the key to everything.
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I like to do one thing at a time and do it to the best of my ability.
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I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
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The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
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Rape is an outrage that cannot be tolerated in a civilized society. Yet feminism, which has waged a crusade for rape to be taken more seriously, has put young women in danger by hiding the truth about sex from them.
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The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity - a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.
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She was leaving the world as woman who had loved and been loved back. She was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. A mother. A person of consequence at last. No. It was not so bad, Mariam thought, that she should die this way. Not so bad.
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I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it.
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I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don't want adventure.
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
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Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.
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The damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I should tear it up an start again. But I don't.
