Francesca Annis Quotes
The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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Banks are slowly but surely lending again, and never again will taxpayers foot the bill for Wall Street's excesses. In case we forgot, that was the change we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.
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Touring we thought was a waste of time. It was much more productive and much more creative to write and record. I am glad today that we didn't tour. We knew it begins and ends with a song. Back then the entire business revolved around the song.
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Not only will you be held accountable for the things you do, but you will be held responsible for the very thoughts you think.
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When I created Quirke, he was 6ft 6in and blond. But then a woman reader wrote to me and said, 'Why do you keep saying his hair is blond? It's not. It's brown.' I wrote back to her and told her that, of course, she was right. So I darkened his hair and now that he's being played by Gabriel Byrne; with each successive book he gets a bit smaller and smaller.
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The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time.
