Winifred Holtby Quotes
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Before being a player, I was a diehard fan of Roma, so I know what the fans felt when we won.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice.
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I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat.
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Colour can raise the dead.
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I think daily deals are a good idea. Any ad people view as content is a good ad, and that's true for daily-deal ads too.
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Networking is rubbish; have friends instead.
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The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
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Fight choreography has far more in common with dance choreography than it does with actual martial arts. You learn martial arts techniques, but those are just the movements for the choreography. You're working with a partner in choreography. You're working on timing.
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If the (British) Arts Council give you money, they also tell you how to spend it.
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It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.
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With me, satisfaction is always very fleeting with our work. I always get a little restless with it.
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More and more, I've started to understand that no show is dead unless somebody decrees it's dead at a studio.
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I don't like to watch golf on television because I can't stand people who whisper.
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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
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"After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that there is any kink in their character. They simply don't realise what they are saying.
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There's an old saying,'It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.' It's usually the player who misses those three-footers, not the putter.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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On golf: One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
