Edwina Currie Quotes
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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Fiction is optimistic or unrealistic enough to demand that there should be a meaningful narrative.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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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.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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From 'Midnight Cowboy' to 'Taxi Driver' is a brief era whose grit, beauty, and violence has been quite mythologized.
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Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!
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I'm easy to hate. I get it.
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On the field, I went from an anonymous redshirt to a short-yardage specialist to a Heisman Trophy candidate. Off the field, I showed up as a wild kid and grew up.
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I like the work that I get to do.
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You've got to change with the public's taste.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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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.
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My ideal of womanhood has always been the pioneer woman who fought and worked at her husband's side. She bore the children, kept the home fires burning; she was the hub of the family, the planner and the dreamer.
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I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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I've been very fortunate and I am grateful.
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The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
