Bernice L. McFadden Quotes
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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The whole period of the '60s changed a lot of us; there was never a decade like that in American history... to have the decade capture one of the great accomplishments of this century: man landing on the moon.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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Millions of us track ourselves all the time. We step on a scale and record our weight. We balance a checkbook. We count calories. But when the familiar pen-and-paper methods of self-analysis are enhanced by sensors that monitor our behavior automatically, the process of self-tracking becomes both more alluring and more meaningful.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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Both me and Ishmeet were very naughty. We used to have my grandfather's swords in the house. We used to take all these swords and take all the showpieces Mom had and slice them one by one. He actually locked my nana in the kitchen once for two hours.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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My golf game is lacking big time.
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It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
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I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.
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I am a wannabe guitarist and in that journey I had been invited to the Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford to talk about my experience of the music industry in return for guitar lessons.
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People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.
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I don't think badly of or oppose having plastic surgery. I once seriously thought of it, but I decided to take my appearance as it is.
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An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.
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I have no doubt that aggressively going after wrongdoing can result in real improvement. Fewer wrongdoers in city government means more honest employees; it means better city services; it means more efficient government. And punishing wrongdoing can have a strong ripple effect that deters others from going down the wrong path.
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We forget about the people we love sometimes.
