Francesca Annis Quotes
I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
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I cannot summon up inspiration; I myself am summoned.
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When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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Confining marine animals to tanks and separating them from their families and their natural surroundings, just so people can watch them swim in endless circles, teaches us far more about humans than it does about animals - and the lesson is not a flattering one.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it.
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You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.
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But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.
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But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.
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I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.'
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Children should always feel like the adults are living in this world to nurture them, to take care of them, to protect them from any bad thing that might come.
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Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.
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I've never been too afraid of what other people have said, especially when I was younger, but I suppose that was the arrogance of youth.
