Kate Williams Quotes
The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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If you're missing three or four limbs, you have special challenges going forward. And the last thing you want is to not be independent in your home.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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I would never cancel a tour unless I had real reasons and personal things that require my undivided attention.
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I definitely write about a lot of dreamy, surreal stuff. I do end up going to a surreal world with my music, but I also like the idea of there being really real stuff as well.
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What I'm finding out now is that people care more about a flag than about their fellow man. That's killing me.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
