Harold MacMillan Quotes
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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I just invent, then wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I like to smile. I smile even when I'm nervous since it calms me down and shows my friendliness.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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When you talking boxing, you talking me.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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Conservatives need to know how important it is to fill out the census. It is one of the only things our Constitution specifically asks of U.S. citizens and boycotting will just help liberals expand government even further.
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The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
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The ideal would be to have a career like Meryl Streep's or Kate Winslet's. It's just unbelievable how they manage to make such incredible choices one after the other. If you could have a career anything like that, then that would be a great thing.
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I've been working a long time; it was a slow burn. But I'm grateful it's been like that.
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I am always attracted to the moments when a person who is associated with a certain message, image or sensibility evolves. I am very interested in how audiences respond to that maturation and absorb the evolution.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
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One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.
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This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.
