Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Quotes
Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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I had a crazy life for a teenager. I lived in New Jersey, but I'd go to Vermont for three weeks, join a commune, take pictures with the guy I was dating, come back home, and post photos.
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I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.
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What I have yet to see is a real woman choose a younger man because he spent six hours a day at the gym trying to sculpt his abs.
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I think that I've had a very strange life.
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'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.
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I love creating new things. It's difficult to be creative once a restaurant's open. People want the same dishes. For me, the creativity is in opening a new place and starting a new menu.
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I like all of the books I work on to be ones you can pick up without knowing the entire history of the character, because then, not only can you enjoy it as is, but it encourages you to look into the history of that character and their world.
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The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
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When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa.
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Jews were the first to believe that history itself has meaning and that progress, not repetition, is the law of life.
