Francesca Annis Quotes
From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
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I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God, her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm, flawless pitch, flawless feeling, and flawless beauty.
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
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My joke is that three black people watch 'The Daily Show' at any given time. So if I'm watching it, that counts, and there's only two left. It's a silly joke, but you know, different types of comedy reach different cultures.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what ignites the imagination.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
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I am absolutely not saying that Milosevic might not be responsible for all sorts of atrocities, but I believe that what's been left out of public debate and the press is that there was a civil war going on there.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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Real education is about genuine understanding and the ability to figure things out on your own; not about making sure every 7th grader has memorized all the facts some bureaucrats have put in the 7th grade curriculum.
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To love beauty is to see light.
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As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
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When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.
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From one till seven, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese. But I can't speak a word of it now.
