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.

Deborah Lawrenson

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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.

  

  Garrett Clayton
  • People
  • Believe
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Attention
  • Care
  • Voice

• I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Art
  • Business
  • Think

• If the constitution goes, I go.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Constitution
  • Go
  • Goes

• 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.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Trying
  • You
  • Burden

• 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.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Team
  • Trust

• 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.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • War
  • Society
  • Terrorism

• 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.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • Pleasure
  • More
  • Still

• People's blessings give you the power to work tirelessly. The only thing required is commitment.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Work
  • Power

• I've always loved Spanish. I love my father's Spanish records.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Father
  • Always
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Friends
  • True
  • Friend

• I know that I'm not my body, and I also know that you're not yours.

  

  Janine Shepherd

• 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.

  

  Don McCullin
  • Up
  • School
  • Bad

• Every once in a while, a new technology, an old problem, and a big idea turn into an innovation.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Technology
  • Innovation

• I thought I'd be married and a father by 35.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Father

• People don't watch TV only to relate to stuff. They also watch to find out about a world they can't relate to.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • People
  • World

• 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.

  

  Kevin Eubanks
  • Time
  • Black

• Music always lived with me, like a family tradition.

  

  Sidney Royel Selby III
  • Music
  • Family

• People have to realize that the air we breathe and the water we drink come from the ocean and will go back to the ocean one way or another, no matter how far away we may be from it. It's a perpetual cycle.

  

  Walter Munk
  • Water
  • Air
  • Ocean

• If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

  

  Helen McCrory
  • Unhappy
  • Frightened
  • Bloody

• I fall asleep feeling beautiful. Then, in the morning, before I leave the house, I say five things I love about myself, like 'You have really pretty eyes.' That way I can go out into the world with that little bit of extra confidence. It's a feel-good protein shake in my back pocket in case someone messes with me that day.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • World
  • Good
  • Pretty

• We each take up one virtual space per title... Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned. This is a big waste of money, and no incentive at all for the bookseller to move the book.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Life
  • Up
  • Money

• 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.

  

  Deborah Lawrenson
  • Book
  • Asleep
  • Marveled