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

• That $27,000 that a young player will now get just for making the main draw at the Australian Open is huge. It can set them up for a couple of months which at that level you really do need that kind of help. It sounds like a lot of money, but when you're travelling the world trying to make it as a tennis player, it doesn't last long.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• 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

• Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Why

• 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

• If we practice hard enough, we can become thoroughly interested in even the simplest things of daily life, the way a child would. The smallest things would become so meaningful, they might even be worth a few words or a photograph, whatever method you use to capture them.

  

  John Dickerson
  • Life
  • Words
  • Practice

• When Thomas and John Knoll launched Photoshop 1.0 in 1990, the software couldn't even handle color images. But their offerings got the startup noticed by Apple and Adobe, both of whom became key to the fledgling company's later success.

  

  Jay Samit
  • Success
  • Color

• You can be stopped if a police officer reasonably suspects a crime is about to be committed, is being committed or has been committed. Every law enforcement agency does it. It's essential to policing.

  

  Raymond Kelly
  • Police
  • Crime
  • Committed

• There was an agent who wanted to book me for Glee. He lied and said I could sing. He was like, "If you need a guy in a wheelchair who has a great voice, I've got your guy!" I was like, "What are you talking about?" .

  

  Zach Anner
  • Great
  • Book
  • Guy

• 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