Paddy Ashdown (Jeremy John Durham Ashdown) Quotes
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I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money, but I didn't have it for many decades. I'm always trying to get shows put on for 25 per cent less production costs.
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There are hours when I must force the novel out of my mind and be interested in the children.
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I really love to make sweeping historical gestures that are like little illustrations of novels.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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This is my first wuxia movie and I must consider this before trying to make something with my own.
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I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.
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I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?'
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In the extremity of war, character is revealed.
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As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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In the Twentieth Century war will be dead, the scaffold will be dead, hatred will be dead, frontier boundaries will be dead, dogmas will be dead; man will live. He will possess something higher than all these-a great country, the whole earth, and a great hope, the whole heaven.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
