Eleanor Farjeon Quotes
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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There is something uniquely American about the motel: It speaks to the transient nature of America itself, one enabled and encouraged by our roads and highways.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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One moment cannot be the most important.
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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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I have done all the work myself, not assistants. That's why I'm in a wheelchair: I've been doing it physically - it's hard labour - throughout my life.
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We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out. So you can pick and choose and find something to energise you.
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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I will not say the fact that there are no European Union observers at an election means that it will not be fair and free.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
I play well with everybody.
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I'm not a drummer anymore, on my gravestone, if there is one, if anyone writes anything about me besides hopefully being a dad, it would be that I sang in my band when I was in my 20s. So I was like, 'Yeah, I should probably focus on this a little more,' so I just practiced a lot. (When asked about his singing.)
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Both of my grandfathers were in the service. It's one of those things that you can't be thankful enough for.
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It might shock you, but I haven't been to that many fashion shows, and I'd never done a commissioned piece for a fashion house.
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What the great mentor is always looking for is a person who is willing to tap his genius, to put it through the refiner's fire, to do the hard work to develop it. Indeed, mentoring is the medieval art of alchemy-turning plain old human steel into hearts and minds of gold.
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I come from a wonderful family. My mother was a pianist and my father was a salesman. They were very middle-class, very middle-Western.
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So it's 1976 and we're still riding on our past success. I mean I've gone on like that for I don't know how long.
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All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.
