Edwina Currie Quotes

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

Edwina Currie

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• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Know

• At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Day
  • Decision

• Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Meaningful
  • Optimistic
  • Narrative

• My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Women
  • Really
  • Neighborhood

• I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Life
  • Up
  • My Life

• I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Think
  • Thoughts
  • Head

• Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Good
  • Job
  • Guy

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • House

• The feeling of insecurity is inimical to our sense of wellbeing, as it causes anxiety and stress, which harms our physical and mental health. It is no surprise then that, according to some surveys, workers across the world value job security more highly than wages.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • World
  • Job
  • Feeling

• From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Violence
  • Beauty
  • Cowboy

• Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Sister

• I'm easy to hate. I get it.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Hate
  • Easy
  • Get

• I like the work that I get to do.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Work
  • Like
  • Get

• You've got to change with the public's taste.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • You
  • Change
  • Taste

• Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Book
  • Doing
  • Successful

• I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Art
  • Things
  • Religion

• People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • People
  • Home
  • Air

• In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Business
  • Running
  • Competition

• I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Woman
  • Walking
  • Red

• The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • World
  • Important
  • Man

• A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

  

  James Callaghan
  • Courage
  • Advice

• My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ass thick ass they can.

  

  Charles Macklin
  • Why
  • Friends
  • Mankind

• The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

  

  Edwina Currie
  • Woman
  • Advice
  • Smoke