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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You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
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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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Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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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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I love wearing dresses that hug the body, but then, at the Oscars, I had a big dress, and I really loved that. It's a style I never thought I would wear, but I saw the dress, and I was like, 'Oh my God, that's it!'
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In my judgment the people of no nation can lose their liberty so long as a Bill of Rights like ours survives and its basic purposes are conscientiously interpreted, enforced and respected so as to afford continuous protection against old, as well as new, devices and practices which might thwart those purposes. I fear to see the consequences of the Court's practice of substituting its own concepts of decency and fundamental justice for the language of the Bill of Rights as its point of departure in interpreting and enforcing that Bill of Rights.
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What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.
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As I told the kids on the way home, this conference is tough. We have to build mental as well as physical toughness to be competitive.
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If one were required to increase the dramatic seriousness of his face in relation to the seriousness of the problems he had to confront, he would quickly petrify and become his own statue.
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People are not problems to be solved. They are mysteries to be explored.
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I won't claim the workhouses didn't have their problems, but they were set up by people who cared.
