Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Quotes
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My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, she may have a diminished earning capacity because of the fact that she will bear children. Of course, this is case by case. I had two kids, and it didn't really slow me down at all.
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I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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I feel quite fearless protecting the people I love.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
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I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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I really do believe there are things passed down. Behaviour, not just DNA. Psychological make-up. You can see it in dogs. If you want to breed a calm dog, don't get two fighters.
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What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.
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I've tried several varieties of sex, all of which I hate. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic; the others give me a stiff neck and/or lockjaw.
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All movements go too far.
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Good wrong ideas are extremely scarce... and good wrong ideas that even remotely rival the majesty of string theory have never been seen.
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Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.
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I make music for the whole world, not just one borough.
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There can be no darker or more devastating tragedy than the death of man's faith in himself and in his power to direct his future.
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Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings.
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I've actually always been interested in following a character more long term, but the only place to really do that as an actor is on a TV series.
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Fear can indeed be the beginning of wisdom.
