Eglantyne Jebb Quotes
Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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They hate whom they fear.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.
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Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
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For me, if I have the choice between an extra 45 minutes in bed or getting up at 4:30 A.M. to go to the gym, I will always choose bed.
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I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
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We cannot disguise hostility towards any religion behind the pretence of liberalism.
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I'd find Moyo's views cruel and mistaken even she did not get the scholarships that have been reported.
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My Brother went to collegeTo become a doctorAnd if he studies hard enoughHe'll end up just like papa, who hates his life.
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It's the playoffs. There's no room for okay.
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I think I always knew I wasn't gonna have a regular job.
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The leading character isn't always the most important or interesting character; when people think that the protagonist is the character portrayed, it's people who haven't read Shakespeare.
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My government's first aim will be to bring peace to Mexico.
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When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that.
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Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
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I'm not good at narrative; I'm really a gag writer, and that comes from being in the newspaper comic strip world for a while in college. What I do is I just write tons of jokes, then I sort them out in terms of quality and then pick the best of the jokes and then try to form them into a plot. If I get a good theme going, I feel lucky.
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Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds
