Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.Paddy Ashdown
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
Zadie Smith -
I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
Nat King Cole -
We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
Manmohan Singh -
I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
Patricia Clarkson -
I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
Wanda Jackson -
O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
Abu Bakr
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
Pat Summitt -
There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
Laura Riding -
I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
Samantha Fox -
Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
F. Sionil Jose -
I was raised speaking English and Spanish. And I also speak Danish. And I can get by in French and Italian. I've acted in Spanish and English, but when something has to do with emotions, sometimes I feel I can get to the heart of the matter better in Spanish.
Viggo Mortensen -
A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
Sacha Guitry
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh -
My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
Becky G -
This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
Gary North -
I cannot approach someone; I lack the confidence when it comes to the guy I desire. I'm very good when it comes to matchmaking and hooking others up. But I can't help my own cause.
Kangana Ranaut -
I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
Omari Hardwick -
Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
Iain Banks
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No one's ever really cared about me being bisexual, and I only came out because I had always been out; it's just the general public didn't know. I'm quite fearless. I'm like, 'Let's just go out there and do this and see what happens.'
Nicola Adams -
Watching DBSK and Super Junior brought me up to be a singer.
Zelo -
Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).
C. S. Lewis -
I don't reflect on sort of the age of the roles that I get. It's usually just what plays into what's believable - 'Am I believable at this age?'
Joel Kinnaman -
When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to escape the world that is a slave to the time that makes things fall apart. I have never played these games to occupy my world.
D. B. Weiss -
In the modern age where everything is connected to everything, the most important thing about what you can do is what you can do with others.
Paddy Ashdown