Edwina Currie Quotes
I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.

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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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I knew very early on that I wasn't Brad Pitt.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I am a big music nerd.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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The best part about the movie, and everybody seems to rave about it, is the boot camp part.
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On radio, you're in your own little world. Every time I'd be doing a possible no-hitter - I think I've done something like 25 no-hitters and a couple of perfect games - I would always put the date on the tape. Not for me, but for the player, so that 25 or 30 years later when he's playing it for his kids or grandkids, you have that date.
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Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
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Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.
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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
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I was bloody ill-tempered when I was young.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.
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The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.
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I'm going to take the high road because the low road is so crowded.
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
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As Schwartz states: “If one accepts the basic idea that people have an innate drive toward nurturing their own health, this implies that, when people have chronic problems, something gets in the way of accessing inner resources. Recognizing this, the role of therapists is to collaborate rather than to teach, confront, or fill holes in your psyche.”14 The first step in this collaboration is to assure the internal system that all parts are welcome and that all of them—even those that are suicidal or destructive—were formed in an attempt to protect the self-system, no matter how much they now seem to threaten it.
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I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.