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 think when you have an optimistic attitude, and you believe that God is guiding you, that you will find the good things in your life and that you will lead to good relationships and good people in your life. And you can make the most of what he's given you.
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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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My host at Richmond, yesterday morning, could not sufficiently express his surprise that I intended to venture to walk as far as Oxford, and still farther. He however was so kind as to send his son, a clever little boy, to show me the road leading to Windsor.
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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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Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.
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When you describe a character's dream, it has to be sharper than reality in some way and more meaningful. It has to somehow speak to plot, character, and all the rest.
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They did not talk or want to talk. It was as if they were afraid to talk for fear of spoiling something beautiful. But Anne had never felt so near Katherine Brooke before. By some magic of its own the winter night had brought them together . . . almost together but not quite.
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The word 'hillbilly', I've never liked that, and I've never used that in my music.
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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.
