Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley Quotes
I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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My favorite thing is to have a big dinner with friends and talk about life.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic.
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Modern secular thought has its own dualism: It treats only the physical world as knowable and testable, while locking everything else - mind, spirit, morality, meaning - into the realm of private, subjective feelings. The so-called fact/value split.
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In middle school, I had an '87 Regal. That was unheard of.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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They're dressing like in the 50's when they come out to the shows, and many of them have vintage cars.
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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.
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I don't go out of the way to take special care of myself.
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I would like to cite an instance which proves the efficacy of clean living on the part of an athlete coupled with the inspiration received from a champion which go a long way to making a champion.
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Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
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My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.
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I will never let money from anyone affect what I do.
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I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.
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Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
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It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.
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How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.
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It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.
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Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.
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I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.
