Wendy McElroy Quotes
It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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My target is to give everything, and only if we win the trophies will I be relaxed.
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At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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Eating is one of the great pleasures of life.
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I don't play many characters like myself. Oh I don't know what I am!
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
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Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
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Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
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Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.
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I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them.
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Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base itself in adaptive skill, or any skill for that matter. All it needs is the fuel of more celebrity, and thus more prestige, and thus more celebrity, and so on ad infinitum.
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If Eggy wanted to get spliced, let him, was the way I looked at it. Marriage might improve him. It was difficult to think of anything that wouldn’t.
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When you write a short story ... you had better know the ending first. The end of a story is only the end to the reader. To the writer, it's the beginning. If you don't know exactly where you're going every minute you're writing, you'll never get there - or anywhere.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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He left a corsair's name to other times,Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.
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As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.
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The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.
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I've never turned down an autograph request. I've never not taken a picture with someone.
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Conscience in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
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The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
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It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.
