Elspeth Huxley Quotes
One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'
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When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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My brother used to say that when you deal with women, it's difficult to remove emotions from an argument. I never really knew what he meant. Then I read an article that said when it comes to emotion and logic, men's and women's brains are different - my brother was right! Women are very mysterious, but that's part of their joy.
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I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.
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A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court.
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I'm not a big fan of Putin. I'm not a big fan of Russia.
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There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.
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My budget is similar to the Penny Plan, which cuts 1 percent a year for five or six years and balances the budget.
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We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
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I love England and the historical aspect of it.
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Death is easy, and sudden, and can’t be stopped.
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By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
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It was a combination of an intense interest in children's literature, which I've always had, and the feeling that I'd just have a go and see if I could do it.
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One of the stock Sydney jokes is of the census-taker who enquires: 'How many children have you, ma'am?' 'Two living and three in Melbourne.'
