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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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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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 do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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In London, a lot of the time you don't see the sun shine.
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My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.
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The piano has disappeared from working-class family life, which is a shame. It's associated with the middle classes now. Everyone in my family sang and played piano, but my parents were delighted and amazed when I became the first professional performer in the family - apart from a clog-dancer way back.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
