Oona Chaplin Quotes
Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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We think of the 1950s as an oppressive time in the culture, and indeed it was, but it was also in many ways a more secular moment, and one in which great scientific achievements flourished. I don't want to get too gauzy about this, but there was much more respect for science as a necessary part of society.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric.
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Money is not everything. We don't need billions and trillions of dollars.
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I watch a ton of CNN.
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A good story is obviously a difficult thing to invent, but its difficulty is a poor reason for despising it.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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It's really weird because my house is very ornate, but my writing lair is very, very blank. It's white, the furniture is white. It gives me nothing to look at, so I just have to concentrate!
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I listen to all types of music so I'm influenced by everything.
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Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn't cringe when I saw myself on 'The Hour.' It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it's good.
