Ann Wroe Quotes
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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There is a kind of structure for a story that was peculiarly compelling for the radio. I thought I had invented it atom-by-atom sitting in an editing booth in Washington on M Street when I was in my 20s. Then I found out that it is one of the oldest forms of telling a story - it was the structure of a sermon.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
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Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.
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I love Channing Tatum!
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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In 13 years of doing my day job, I've learned a few things about motivating people. It's about setting a vision and, as long as everyone knows why they're doing what they're doing, you achieve that vision.
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Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god, which can be a very unspiritual, unreligious concept.
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My efforts are focused on ensuring that CERN maintains a leading role in the fields of science, technology and education, and that it continues to be a place that unites scientists from around the world.
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If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.
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What's popular in places considered ghettos - whether that's the inner city or Appalachia - is having a decent quality of life.
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When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.
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Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.
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A general principle of good taxation is that similar jobs, and similar kinds of compensation, should be taxed the same way: otherwise, the government is effectively subsidizing some jobs over others.
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Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.
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Watch the mouth, it reveals what the eyes try to hide.
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I am no longer the left behind. I am the living. And I want everything this life has to offer. I stop for a second and look around at all the shops and stores and stalls. At all the people, going about their days, at all the moments they're living. This is what I want. I want to live every moment. I want to feel everything.
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THERE IS NO BEATING THESE PEOPLE, though they seem beatable.
