Deborah Lawrenson Quotes
I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.
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I don't talk about how old I am because sometimes it can affect parts that you get in Hollywood. I don't believe that it's a necessary element. I feel that I'm a character, and I'm an actor. People focusing on my age instead of the role I'm playing can be a hindrance.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.
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I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.
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If the constitution goes, I go.
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It's a burden trying to keep a secret. It's hard. It probably takes more out of you trying to hold it and keep it than it does for you to really let it out.
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Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
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People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.
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I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records.
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I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.... If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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I know that I'm not my body, and I also know that you're not yours.
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I was dyslexic and uneducated and left school at 14. I grew up in Finsbury Park, which was a pretty bad place where you had to fight and be beaten. It was just a constant roundabout of violence.
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Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.
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I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.
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People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.
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It is hard for a black man to just be himself. We spend so much time in defense of something that is indefensible because there is nothing to defend.
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Music always lived with me, like a family tradition.
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I just want to keep writing characters who are interesting and complicated people and interesting roles for women, in TV or film or in theater. I think that's like my 'Blues Brothers' mission.
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The saddest kind of sad is the sad that tries not to be sad. You know, when Sad tries to bite its lip and not cry and smile and go, 'No, I'm happy for you?' That's when it's really sad.
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But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
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I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.
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The book that made me decide to go into Russian literature was 'Anna Karenina,' which I first read in high school. The thing that appealed to me and constituted its Russianness for me was that it was simultaneously incredibly funny and sad.
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I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.
