Laura Carmichael Quotes

In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

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• The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Moral
  • Story
  • Temporary

• I feel quite connected to the past, and my memory. Everything that I've ever done I can still relate to, and feel connected to it in a way. There's no part of my life that I look at and go, 'I don't recognize that person at all.'

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Done
  • Past

• I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.

  

  Dan Wheldon
  • Good
  • Stress
  • Racing

• I tried to take seriously the idea that if you tortured language you might arrive at some new truth. Later it became clear to me that I was retreading ground by fighting the literary battles of the 1950s and 1960s, and that I was actually a bit bored by some of the books I professed to love.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Fighting

• The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Business
  • Me
  • Entertainment

• I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • Music
  • Song
  • Write

• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Distinctions
  • New Yorkers

• Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Different
  • Me
  • Animals

• We recorded our first CD, Sixteen Stone, with a small budget and never dreamed that we would enjoy such a high success. It was simply fantastic.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • High
  • Success
  • Small

• Throughout the 1970s, '80s and '90s, federal mandatory minimum laws were implemented that forced judges to deliver sentences far lengthier than they would have if allowed to use their own discretion. The result has been decades of damage, particularly to young people.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Laws
  • Judges

• You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Great
  • Business
  • Moving

• The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Power
  • Powerful
  • Only

• I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • People
  • Want
  • View

• I've been very, very careful to tell people what I am qualified to talk about and what I'm not qualified to talk about.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Talk
  • Careful
  • Qualified

• I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • People
  • Politics
  • Integrity

• What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Dream
  • Model
  • Better

• I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • History
  • Culture

• David Bowie worked with Brian Eno and dressed up in extraordinary clothes, but he was also a brilliant songwriter who captured the thoughts of a generation. He was hugely successful, without compromise.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Thoughts
  • Successful

• Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Way

• When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.

  

  Dan Pink
  • School
  • Law
  • Class

• It is notorious that, whenever the demand for labor is much greater than the supply, or the wages of labor are much higher than the expenses of living, very many, even on the ordinary laboring class, are remarkable for indolence, and work no more than compelled by necessity.

  

  Edmund Ruffin
  • Class
  • Demand
  • Supply

• I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Life
  • Culture

• And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

  

  Eva Ibbotson
  • Played
  • Homesick
  • Loveliest

• In the U.K., there is a sort of obsession with class.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Class
  • Obsession
  • Sort