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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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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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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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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If you could help millions of people, you can certainly make millions of dollars. I try to influence everyone I know to be a giver because the person that benefits most by giving is the giver.
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Get in your kitchens, buy unprocessed foods, turn off the TV, and prepare your own foods. This is liberating.
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It is harder in many ways to live in the middle than at the edges. Much harder to interpret as you see fit, because then you have no assurance you are doing right in the eyes of God, no confidence you will be rewarded in the afterlife
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Italians are fantastic people, really. They can work you over in an alley while singing an opera.
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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.
