Angela Thirkell Quotes
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.Angela Thirkell
Quotes to Explore
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
E. P. Thompson -
There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
A. J. Cook -
It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
Nargis Fakhri -
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
Sam Keen -
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
A. J. Muste -
Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
Yancy Butler
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
Ted Sarandos -
Centenarians are still living near their children and feel loved and the expectation to love. Instead of being mere recipients of care, they are contributors to the lives of their families. They grow gardens to contribute vegetables, they continue to cook and clean.
Dan Buettner -
It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
J. J. Abrams -
A good fan base has developed around the Hurricanes, and I see the opportunity for continued growth for this franchise in the future.
Gary Bettman -
'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
J. G. Ballard -
There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
Ian Anthony Dale
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It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
Aaliyah -
Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
Walter Gilbert -
For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.
Jan Schakowsky -
If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.
Alan Cooper -
A lot of acting techniques are very self-oriented.
Anna Deavere Smith -
'Dialogue' is not a dirty word; it's our word.
Blase J. Cupich
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I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.
Douglas Hurd -
Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
Salman Rushdie -
Study after study shows that people are much less likely to lie to a person they consider to be honest.
Pamela Meyer -
I don't care WHAT the say about me, as long as it's not the truth.
Katharine Hepburn -
No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please...As it is a truth both of Scripture and of experience that the unrenewed man can do nothing of himself to secure his salvation, it is essential that he should be brought to practical conviction of that truth. When thus convinced, and not before, he seeks help from the only source whence it can be obtained.
Charles Hodge -
If one cannot invent a really convincing lie, it is often better to stick to the truth.
Angela Thirkell