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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Women are not all single-issue voters.
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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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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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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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I don't really care about interruptions. I accept technology, and I don't turn things off. I've found a peace with fragmentation and a harmony with switching gears quickly to other things.
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Before I changed my diet, every time I ate, my torso would feel burning hot, and the areas around my lymph nodes would really ache.
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It's real easy in a lot of businesses for your head to swell up, and you become somebody else. So that's one of my main goals in the business - to continue to be me.
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The capacity of young people to persevere, even under the most adverse conditions, never ceases to amaze me.
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I don't want to slip into Johnny Borrell mode. I don't want to be singing that there's nothing on TV, nothing on the radio.
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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.
