Imelda Staunton Quotes
I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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Things are looking up, and hopefully, I will be doing good roles in both Hollywood and Bollywood.
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Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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I'm liberal on every social aspect, probably. More liberal than people would even believe. But there's still some of that Texas in me, as far as the gun debate. I wish there were no guns; I'm all for gun restrictions. But I'm also of the mind-set, if nothing changes, I'm getting a gun.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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The greatest benefit of being a solo performer is that it is seriously frightening, but at the same time very empowering. It's just you and the audience. All the weight is on you to deliver the songs.
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In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.
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What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
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Right now we are not on a plane list for the next couple of days so that gives us the opportunity to focus on the people who are here.
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Jesus Christ out-socialists the socialists. He says that in His Kingdom he that is greatest shall be the servant of all. The real test of the saint is not preaching the gospel, but washing disciples' feet, that is, doing the things that do not count in the actual estimate of men but count everything in the estimate of God.
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If you're a friend or a relative of George Herbert Walker Bush, Prez 41, or George W. Bush, Prez 43, or any other Bushes, then you know an 18-hole round of golf shouldn't take more than three hours out of your day - there are other important things to do.
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There is no need to struggle to be free; the absence of struggle is in itself freedom.
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I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.
