Charlotte Bingham Quotes

I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.

Charlotte Bingham

• Hate
• Was
• Pear-Shaped
• Pears

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• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

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• We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

  

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• Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.

  

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• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

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• I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!

  

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• I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.

  

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• In life, there's a ladder sometimes, and maybe at the top, there's a mirror. You take a step up, then maybe three steps down... just because you don't want to face the decloaking in the mirror.

  

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• Neatness - which is grooming, after all - is definitely the most important requirement.

  

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• I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

  

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• Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

  

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• I don't get claustrophobic.

  

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• The joke around my office is that I've shaken many hands, but I've petted more dogs.

  

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• I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

  

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• It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'

  

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• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  

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• You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

  

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• I had to face the facts, I was pear-shaped. I was a bit depressed because I hate pears. 'Specially their shape.

  

  Charlotte Bingham
  • Hate
  • Was
  • Pear-Shaped