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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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 write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
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I find it kind of weird that directors want to put themselves in their films.
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The great always sell their society to the vanity of the little.
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There are two sayings that are familiar in every news room across the country: 1. sex sells; 2. if it bleeds it leads.
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When I'm not on tour, I love to have a long breakfast at home in my garden.
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It usually takes about a year to write each book. I don't plan it that way. I don't set deadlines. If a book wants to take longer, it can.
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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.
