Imelda Staunton Quotes
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No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.
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When I lead essay workshops, I ask students to come up with at least five topics, which they'll narrow down to one. The winning idea should be the story the student is most excited to tell because it honestly reflects his or her best self.
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I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
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I know all the critics.
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In my books, there is no 'ugly duckling turning into a beautiful swan' syndrome because if you look at the Hansel and Gretel syndrome, it was a mistake. It wasn't a duckling, it was a cygnet, and that's why it turned into a swan. The duckling should with any luck turn into a nice clucking duck and get on with its life. Cluck! Cluck! Cluck!
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I could come up with 50 stories that I am thinking about.
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Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backlash.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism.
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Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
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I try not to take myself too seriously, but I do take my work seriously.
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The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.
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What I see increasingly is that companies are playing political roles. We should actually have our research and our laws map that.
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Look at Judi Dench, who's brilliant in whatever bloody job she does.
