Edith Bowman Quotes
I'm a fighter for love. I guess it's just that thing of standing up for what you believe in and what and who you love. And any opportunity to avoid people fighting about things the better, really.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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Badminton is not a popular sport in India.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
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I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me.
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I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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The biggest place I look for validation is from my mother. That's the little girl in me that will never grow up.
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It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.
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A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
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England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
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All the best lyrics are written in ten minutes.
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I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.
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A man who in the struggles of life has no home to retire to, in fact or in memory, is without life's best rewards and life's best defences.
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I'm a fighter for love. I guess it's just that thing of standing up for what you believe in and what and who you love. And any opportunity to avoid people fighting about things the better, really.
