Imelda Staunton Quotes
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.
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I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.
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The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.
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There's a group of people - maybe the secular Taliban is a good name for them - who have morphed this idea, that you have to accept my values being every bit as cherished as your values. That's not tolerance... There are too many things in this world which we sit back and tolerate.
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Being jealous of a beautiful woman is not going to make you beautiful.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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I grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and before the Internet and before everything, just to get anything interesting, you had to go on vacation to San Francisco or something. But I think when you're in the middle of America, you feel very jealous of not just comedy but music that you don't have access to.
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My mother was very wary at first. And now she's come around 180 degrees. She's, like, one of my biggest fans now. Like, she'll come over to my house, and she'll be like, 'OK, listen. I need two T-shirts from the comedy show, and give me three DVDs. The neighbors are asking for them.'
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Why didn't children ever see that they could damage and harm their parents as much as parents could damage and harm children?
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If I cannot say a priori what elementary propositions there are, then the attempt to do so must lead to obvious nonsense. (5.5571)
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So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
