Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley Quotes

I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley

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• I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Future
  • Peace
  • Process

• I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Time
  • Home
  • Together

• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Humility

• Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Perfect
  • Order
  • Horror

• No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Experience
  • Black
  • Interesting

• I'm very fortunate. I have a wonderful family, lots of hobbies and athletic pursuits. I always wanted to have a very well-rounded life.

  

  Laura Lang
  • Life
  • Family
  • Always

• Do we want an Attorney General who will play politics with the law, play politics with the court and just play politics with international conventions designed to protect our troops? I do not want to play that kind of politics. I am going to vote against Alberto Gonzales.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Law
  • Play
  • Politics

• When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school, I could spend full days at work.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Work
  • Children
  • School

• Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Deserve
  • Ways
  • Agree

• If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Different
  • Money
  • Want

• While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • See
  • Need

• Scientists who play by someone else's rules don't have much chance of making discoveries.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Play
  • Chance
  • Rules

• There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner, but for a startup company, keeping costs low is a vital necessity.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Time
  • History
  • Control

• You're not going to win anything with bottles and bricks.

  

  John Doar

• Essentially, your voice is an instrument; its a muscle, and you have to treat it like a muscle, and so you have to work it.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Work
  • Voice
  • Instruments

• He just has to do his part, ... He doesn't have to do any more than that. He directs the offense and gets us points. He doesn't have to try to make something happen by himself.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Job
  • Game
  • Player

• The conclusion is now inescapable that Iraq is in material breach of Resolution 1441, ... But, I also say this: That war is not inevitable.

  

  Jack Straw
  • War
  • Conclusion
  • Iraq

• Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Beginning
  • Details
  • Guides

• You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • May
  • Missing

• TORONTO -- When Cameron Crowe was flying to the Toronto film festival recently, he walked down the aisle of the plane and studied his fellow passengers sitting in front of their personal TV sets. They were just having the greatest time, there was so much joy in their eyes, .. And I looked to see what they were watching. And it was all out-and-out comedies. So many people watching The Longest Yard. And I just got the feeling that, 'You know what? People just like to let it all go, and have a laugh'.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• Christian music was such a huge foundation for me, even as a kid, and I grew to love Christian music not only because of the musicianship, which I thought was extraordinary, but because of the message in it. It was such a huge building block of who I was and who I would become.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Love
  • Message
  • Block

• I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Family
  • Know
  • Immigrant

• I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

  

  Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
  • Film
  • Message
  • Advocate