Eleanor Perenyi Quotes
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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'First Family' on the CW is about the president and his family living in the White House.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
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I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can't sing, I call a poem.
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Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.
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It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.
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When I arrived at Barcelona, I was following a dream, but I now realize sometimes it's better to be content with what you have rather than follow a dream which nearly kills you.
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What we know about the global financial crisis is that we don't know very much.
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Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.
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To garden is to let optimism get the better of judgment.
