Francesca Annis Quotes
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The north coast of Brittany is eaten into bays from which the sea retreats to considerable distances, and is fringed with reefs and islands. It is a favourite resort of Parisians throughout its stretch, from Dinard to Plestin.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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The leader can never close the gap between himself and the group. If he does, he is no longer what he must be. He must walk a tightrope between the consent he must win and the control he must exert.
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We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
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Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.
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First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.
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A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee.
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One of the most talented writers out there is Brian Haig.
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Too many people hate the people that AIDS most affects: gay people and people of color. I do not mean dislike, or feel uncomfortable with. I mean hate. Downright hate. Down and dirty hate.
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I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
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You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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People will invest in you only if they see some kind of return, and that's the dark truth.
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A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
